Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, July 29, 2000, Image 47
Ida’s Notebook isser Summer seems to be the time for reunions. Some are big and some are small. Our family started to have a gathering of about IS people SO years ago. This number has now grown to be nearer 70, but only a small number still attend our annual picnic. They are simply too scat tered and reach from California to Vermont. Our first celebrations were in THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT ICE CREAM^ Streams and Lakes The STREAM MAP OF PENN SYLVANIA was completed in 1965 after a thirty-year effort by Howard Higbee, a former Penn State Professor. The map is also known as the LOST STREAM MAP to some anglers. Professor Higbee succeeded in creating a map of the highest detail possible...a map that shows every stream and lake. He painstakingly plotted by hand, the location of 45,000 miles of streams onto a 3 x 5 foot map. The map sold extremely well - until it was lost several years later. Incredibly, the printer entrusted with the original drawing and printing plates declared bank ruptcy, then carelessly hauled Higbee's 30 years of work to a landfill. The few remaining dog-eared copies became a prized fisher man's possession. Professor Higbee was offered $4OO for one of his last maps. And state agencies were forced to keep their copies under lock and key. Experts told Professor Higbee that reprints were impossible, because the maps were printed in non-photographic blue. Then, in 1991, at the age of 91, Howard Higbee's dream came true. Computers made it possible to reprint the map. Holding an updated map, Howard said, i never thought I'd live to see this day." honor of birthdays and took place each year in our meadow along the Conestoga River. At that time, there were many trees along the banks and the sheep kept the grass quite short. Now the floods of recent years have washed the big trees away and the banks are muddy. We chil dren always enjoyed the fire that our father made in the fireplace. These days we meet in a public U is estimated that 10‘M> of all (hr fishermen ralrh 90% of (hr fish. Regardless of whirl) group \mi Tall into... (here's a sure wa\ l» u|> \our odds... simply (n new fishing waters. Kish where few fishermen ever fish. Pa/tUot Mighai ® Professor llighee's Stream Maps are the first and onlv highlv detailed maps of their hind... showing virtual!) all of the streams, rivers and lakes in caeh state. RAVE REVIEWS ■lt is amazingly detailed and names some creeks In the Mohawk Valley that can't even be found on topographic maps.' John Pitarres OBSERVER-DISPATCH-Utica "If you're looking (or the most definitive maps ever created depicting every single creek, river, stream, pond and lake ....then "Professor Higbee's Stream Maps" are without question the finest Howard Brant THE NEWARK STAR-LEDGER "It is in showing where to find out-of-the-way trout streams that makes the map such a treasure to the fisherman. Joe Gordon TRIBUNE-DEMOCRAT- Johnstown "The map is the most comprehensive charting of waterways we've ever run across." Dave Henderson THE ITHACA JOURNAL park and have many conven iences. My husband's family recently had a big reunion with several hundred in a school. He and three other people spent months preparing for the event. One of the members even had a book on the genealogy of the “Kraybill” family printed after many, many hours of work. Mugs were sold that had the family crest printed on them and many old pictures were dis played. Long ago a picture was taken of a family reunion and an aunt put a number on each of the hundred some people shown and then named each one on the back of the picture. I really doubt that today any one could identify each of the hundreds pictured at a reunion. It seems that we are so busy with our own immediate families that we lose touch with the larger family unless someone takes the trouble to organize a reunion. Stem IPS «f Pennsylvania New Yoii New Jersey Maiyland/Ddaware Why every fisherman needs these maps A guidebook is included FREE with each state map. It will pinpoint the “select waters" for specific species of fish in each state. Locate STREAMS and LAKES both alphabetically and geographically. ' ORDER YOUR COLOR STREAM MAPS; J Available rolled or folded ALSO AVAILABLE in heavy gauge LIFE -1 TIME GUARANTEED, glass-like dear-lamination, wnle-on wipe-off 1 I surface, with brass eyelettes for easy hanging ■ 1 PA-3 FT by 5 FT ROLLED map(s) postage paid at $23 75 ea 1 1 PA 3FTby 5 FT FOLDED map(s) postage paid at $23 75 ea 1 I PA 3FTby 5 FT LAMINATED map(s) postage paid at $43 75 ea I NY-3 5 FT by 4 5 FT ROILED map(s) postage paid at $23 75 ea NY-3 5 FT by 4 5 FT FOLDED map(s) postage paid at $23 75 ea NY-3 5 FT by 4 5 FT LAMINATED map(s) postage paid at $43 75 ea NJ-2 5FTby 3 FT ROLLED map(s) postage paid at $lB 75 ea NJ- 25FTby 3 FT FOLDED map(s) postage paid at $lB 75 ea NJ -2 5 FT by 3 FT LAMINATED map(s) postage paid at $33 75 ea MD/DE-2 5 FT by 3 5 FT ROLLED map(s) postage paid at $lB 75 ea MD/DE-2 5FTby3 5 FT FOLDED map(s) postage paid at $lB 75 ea MD/OE-2 53 FT by 3 5 FT LAMINATED map(s) postage paid at $33 75 Check or money order enclosed $ SHIPPED PRIORITY MAIL ROLLED AND LAMINATED MAPS SHIP IN A STURDY STORAGE TUBE Name I Address I City _ , LANCASTER FARMING i Dept. Map , 1 East Main St., P.O. Box 609, Ephrata, PA 17522 ' Payable: □ Check Enclosed □ Visa □ Mastercard □ Discover Card # - - - FREE GUIDEBOOK! Slate Zip Signature During Bug Camp, a group of Milton Hershey School (MHS) elementary school students took an up-close look at some honeybees at work in the campus bee yard. The children assisted Agricultural and Environmental Educa tion (AEE) Instructional Advisor Scott Seibert, AEE stu dent interns Joe Toole and Al-Zahraa Hbaiu, and Honey Crest Farm owner and operator Stuart Mathias as they extracted honey from the hive and processed it for human consumption. The camp was made available to students through the School’s Summer of Opportunities Program (SOP). The 10-week SOP offers a variety of week-long camps to students, providing them with per tonal enrichment, recreational fun, academic prepared ess, and career awareness. 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