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    CULTIVATING HISTORY

    Aug 10, 2018 3 minutes
    By Andrew Weidman

    There’s a quiet farming village in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where time stands still. Here, life is a bit slower. Geese lead goslings past bank barns while oxen and draft horses graze in meadows edged in snake-rail fencing. Men in coveralls and women in gingham dresses and bonnets stroll down farm lanes and past mercantile windows. A few hundred yards away, the 21st century moves on in full swing as cars and heavy trucks thunder past on the Oregon

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