Ida’s
Notebook
Ida Risser
Labor Day Weekend! Long
ago it was the week to start back
to school. Now I hear that some
of our grandchildren have al
ready gone to school for two
weeks.
Preparation for school was
rather simple when I started high
school. My mother took me and
two of her old Sunday dresses to
a dressmaker in a nearby village.
Here the lady measured me and
without a pattern, made two
dresses for me to wear. I usually
needed a new pair of shoes. And,
1 remember one year that my
parents bought me a pair of boys
ankle high work shoes. It was so
embarrassing to wear those
brown shoes, but I did as I was
told.
We didn’t need to buy school
supplies as we were given a big
tablet and a pencil at school.
Never do I remember having a
book bag to carry things. My oval
blue tin lunch box is still stored in
my house.
We walked in all kinds of
weather unless a kind neighbor
brought a car for his children. My
mother didn’t drive and my fa
ther was too busy to get us. I
surely made up for them as ev
eryday I took our children to the
school bus stop almost a mile
from our home. And, I drove
them to school activities, 4-H
meetings, and music lessons.
Maybe I shouldn’t have learned
to drive, but we had a long farm
lane and even getting the mail
was a chore.
My two-room school had a fur
nace in the basement and a jani
tor so that the teachers did not
PHILADELPHIA Grab
your cowboy hat and kick up
your heels as thousands celebrate
homegrown bounty and compet
itors vie for ribbons at the Penn
sylvania Horticultural Society’s
Philadelphia Harvest Show,
“Harvest Hoedown,” Sept. 15
and 16, at the Horticulture Cen
ter in Fairmount Park.
The Philadelphia Harvest
Show, a city tradition since 1832,
announces the arrival of autumn
in a festive weekend of family
fun, with exciting competitions,
activities and displays.
Prize-winning fruits, vege
tables, herbs, flowers, pressed
have to tend the furnace. There
was an. indoor pump at the back
of the school and of course, two
outdoor toilets. When it rained,
our recess took place in the dusty
baseiflent where there was a
ground floor. What a sight we
were when we came back to our
desks. But, we probably learned
our lessons as well as students in
their big modem schools.
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Harvest Hoedown
plant designs, floral arrange
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served products all set the stage
for this “Country Fair” of suc
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can attend a variety of education
al exhibits and hear guest speak
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and demonstrations. Youth activ
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ing and daily parades, along with
competition categories that in
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sunflowers, dish gardens, terrari
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products. A mini-village with
seasonal gifts, tools, clothes, fur
niture, orchids, bonsai, scented
soaps, and gardening supplies
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as the Guiness Book of World
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pumpkin-carving attempt ever.
And Beekeeper Robert Harvey, a
Harvest Show legend, will don
his massive “bee-beard” and
demonstrate hive maintenance
techniques.
The Philadelphia Harvest
Show will be conducted Satur
day, Sept. 15, and Sunday, Sept.
16, at the Horticulture Center on
Horticulture Drive in Fairmount
Park, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days.
Admission is $6 for adults and $2
for children ages two to 12.
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