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PENNSYLVANIA’S HEART
LANDS VOL. 3: THE WORLD
WAR II YEARS, by Susan
Wert Vogt. Desktop Editing
Co., 2003, 177 pp., $33.00.
ISBN 0-9708901-3-3
Last year I reviewed Vogt’s
first volume in the “Pennsylva
nia’s Heartlands” series, the sto
ries of rural people. Though I
haven’t seen volume 2, which
Vogt calls “more stories about
rural folks,” there was a purpose
to the latest volume, number
three. Vogt, probably in response
to what our nation went through
following 9-11, put together the
current volume with testimonials
from central and south-central
Pennsylvania residents who
served during wartime.
A great deal of volume 3 relies
on accounts from a book that
Vogt was fond of as a child,
“Pennsylvania At War:
1941-1945,” from school. Vogt
makes quick account of how or
ganizations banded together,
much like they did after 9-11, to
“turn the tide of war.” (As a his
tory buff, I really enjoyed the
World War II timeline she pro
vided.)
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One such group during the
“war to end all wars” was the Ci
vilian Conservation Corps, CCC.
The CCC “helped turn ’boys into
men’ who would later serve their
country during World War II,”
according to Vogt.
Importantly, Vogt points out
that farming was a big contribu
tor to the great victory. Even the
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bar kept a soldier from starva
tion, she notes. On page 34, Vogt
notes: “Every type of business, in
fact, made its contribution, direct
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or indirect, to victory. Labor and
management cooperated to push
production to unheard-of heights.
The war could scarcely have been
won without this remarkable
achievement. Pennsylvania could
well be proud of the combat re
cord of its industrial arm.”
She quotes from the “Pennsyl
vania At War” booklet that “the
miner’s pick and the millman’s
drill were no more potent weap
ons than the farmer’s plow.”
(Page 164). For the first time in
anyone’s memory, at the time,
actual production acreage in
creased, from 6,097,116 acres in
Pennsylvania in 1940 to
6,610,473 in 1945. The number of
farms in the state increased from
169,027 to 173,267 in the same
time (page 35). These figures
came from the War booklet.
Annual milk production
climbed from 546 million gallons
in 1941 to a new high of 610 mil
lion gallons in 1945 (page 36).
Pennsylvania agriculture was a
half billion dollar a year industry
back then (very, very substan
tial).
She also noted that at Pearl
Harbor, about 3,000 were killed.
Four from York County were
among the dead.
Vogt covers a lot of accounts
from people who served in the
war in many capacities, including
those who even served as staff
bodyguards.
Vogt has put together a splen
did book, with color photos, too!
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tion, by Annie Proulx and
Lew Nichols. Storey Pub
lishing, 2003, 221 pp.,
$14.95. ISBN
1-58017-520-1
CIDER is dedicated to “cider
apples and amateur cidermakers
everywhere.”
In the Introduction, the au
thors noted that “cider drinking
has been an American tradition
since the days of the Mayflower,
whose passengers brought it with
them from Europe. By 1638, bar
rels of cider could be found in the
cellars of virtually every farm
house and city home in New
England.”
The book is chockfull of apple
varieties used in making cider,
step-by-step guides to making va
rieties of cider, cider vinegar
making, and lots of cider recipes.
Page 90 includes “cider statist
tics,” which tells us a lot: did you
know a standard apple tree will
produce about 10 bushels of
apples, and a bushel of apples
will yield two to three gallons of
fresh cider?
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the Sept. 20 Lancaster Farming Dairy Plus
booklet.
Scheduled; features on organic dairy farms
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AN AMERICAN COUPLE’S
WORKING SEASON IN THE
OUTBACK, by Rebecca
Long Chaney. Professional
Press, 2002, 443 pp.,
$14.99 (add 5 percent tax
for Maryland residents, and
$5 for shipping cost), ISBN
1-57087-609-6
This book could be considered
Long Chaney’s “Epic Journey.”
The author is a longtime Fred
erick News-Post writer. She and
her dairyman husband, Lee, sim
ply leave their jobs and take a
year to travel the Outback.
It’s an emotional, agonizing
decision, but one they are both
ready for. (Though I wish Long
Chaney would explain exactly
why they would do such a thing
it’s never quite clear in the
book, other than for some deep
rooted emotional need, or simply
feeling fed up with their daily
working lives.)
Long Chaney provides a great
deal of detail into the joys and
hazards of the long, involved
journey. This was a spiritual test
of their lives, and she makes it a
lot of fun, and provides insights
into cultures that are beyond the
reasoning of people growing up
in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and
Northeast.
But her recollections of specific
feelings and events, near-disas
ters and personal turmoil, per
sonalities and love for the Aus
tralian Outback come through in
a nice way. For lovers of the trav
elogue, for those who want a
taste of farm and ranch life
Down Under, the book is a treat.
Order from Professional Press.
Chapel Hill, NC 27515-4371.
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