something new. Bev: How long did that process take? Max: The biggest part was getting through the jungles to get to our relay stations. I think it was probably a couple months. But we were in canoes with the alligators out there in the river. It was interesting. Bev: I can imagine, trying to avoid

, we called him Boom Boom Beck. And he was supposed to be a hotshot with the [Wee Beanie], and I guess other teams had guys, some guys we saw there, that we didn’t’ know where they came from. All of our guys were from Lancaster, but we did get maybe a guy from another church team or something. Usually

across, the main line of the railroad right in back of the…where the White Star Restaurant is there, where the Buchanan Hotel is. Well, right in back of that was the main line of the railroad that came into Lancaster to our railroad station. For years that was across from the Hotel Brunswick. And I rode

doing business. I: Now I’ll admit to you that there’s at least two years difference in our ages. So that you’re going to have to fill me in on what April, first of all what time period are you talking about when you say April first? H: I’m talking about the period of which I was acquainted from say 1910

continuation or addendum to what April firsts were like in Lancaster County. Our narrator this time is Mr. Lester H. Herr. Mr. Herr, tell us a little bit about yourself first of all. L: Well my experience with the April first goes back to 1918, being a banker. And since then things have changed considerably of

in agriculture. I think it has always been of interest the romance of the threshing. Now we read even to go back in biblical times when the flail and the few men were used to thresh the grain out on the ground and that was done for thousands of years, even here in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Our