Larry it sure tells a story, one that is similar all around the U.S. We had a farm, close by on a town road, they were getting old, but not blind yet or anything and their place was in similar shape, chickens and livestock were free to roam inside their house!
People get old, place gets away from them, I am sure it did not always look like it was shown, would have been great to get a gang in there, help get the place cleaned up and organized, old equipment and all. I've worked on a few old farms in NJ that were demolished for new housing developments, and you are not kidding about good ground, I've never seen such rich soils as I have encountered on some of these farms, one job, I loaded up some buckets and grew tomatoes, because its been a tradition to grow them, even though technically I was out of town. They did grow quite well too.
Pa to you, is what NY was to me back in those days, still having our farm land intact, barn and house was still there as well. Only trouble was it was almost 200 miles away and you could only enjoy it when there was time and that was hard when you worked 6 days a week. I should have looked in PA, like you, at leas thats just an hour or so.
If he did not donate it, you know darned well they would have condemned it, taken it by eminent domain or some way similar. I lived in the neighborhood to the west, off Mt Airy road, just down the road a piece. Funny, back then I drove an old rusty K10 chevy, and one evening after work and after playing a game in a soft ball league, I rounded the corner where Mt Airy road met the road to the entrance of the condo development I lived in, (all really nice former farm land). I got pulled over for looking suspicious, as no one in that neighborhood, drove anything like that, to them it was a rolling eyesore. It did not help when the door swung open, (it had issues) and I slammed it shut, waking up the cop behind the wheel of the patrol car parked in a dark place overlooking the intersection, he made mention of that to me! I parked it there at these condos a good while too, finally got something a bit newer. Even when I went to drive it out of there, to its retirement where it still is now, I got pulled over again. Funny too because it was completely off the road, I mean completely and I drove it the 176 miles to here regardless to get it done. I was imaginative with my explanation to the patrolman, back when you could still do these kinds of things, and no I don't condone such things, but when you are young, funds are tight.... lets just say it was not the first time and that I am glad those days are over, well except for being young LOL !
It was sad, as an equipment operator, to be part of a massive gang of earthmoving equipment that destroyed many of these kinds of farms in NJ, their fields now in massive piles left by the pans or scrapers. These developers made a fortune off every one of these places.
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