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John L. Marsh and Karl
Nordberg, both on the faculty
of Edinboro Slate College,
are the co-recipients of a
grant ^rom The Public
Committee
for
the
Humanities in Pennsylvania.
Their project, “The Rural
Experience in northwestern
Pennsylvania; yesterday,
today, and tomorrow,” in­
volves the detailed study of
the Todd Goodell farm. Route
6N, the only farm in
Washington Township owned
and operated by the san e
family for over a hundred
years. Once completed, their
findings will be presented at a
public workshop to be held at
Edinboro State College this
coming July.
Featured on the progran.
with this example of a late
Victorian farm will be
George Fellows, Jim Skelton
and Vere Woods—owners and
operators of representative
area farms today. Those

present will have an op­
portunity to hear the farnier
speak directly to his own way
of life and to inspect one of
the farms in question. A final
segment of the program will
take a look at what the farn s
of tomorrow may well look
like.
Professors Marsh and
Nordberg, the creators of a
pictorial history of the
community—Edinboro, a dirt
street town—are in the
process of reprinting a
nostalgic series of pictures of
farm life taken by Lawrence
V. Kupper (1864-1957), long­
time local photographer.
These photographs
visualize life as area farniers
knew it at the turn of the
century, and they will be
featured at “The Rural
Experience” as evidence of
the way things were. Co
sponsors of the program are
Edinboro S*ate College, the
Borough of Edinboro and the
Edinboro Historical Society.

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