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Been almost a year since my last "Fairview History" post, but I have so much more to share, just hadn't gotten around to...
01/25/2026

Been almost a year since my last "Fairview History" post, but I have so much more to share, just hadn't gotten around to it.
I left off with our transition from breeding/raising chickens to producing eggs. Here's more to the story of Fairview Farm's egg business of the 1970's and '80's:

"More Chickens = More Eggs"
The very first year of Fairview Farm being in the egg business, egg prices dropped and there were some second thoughts on what we had gotten ourselves into. But, things rebounded the following year and many, many local markets, deli's, restaurants and other business were selling a LOT of our eggs! More than our 20,000 hens could supply.
In 1970, the newest two-story chicken house (built in 1951) was retrofitted to house caged laying hens on the bottom floor. Only 30 feet wide compared to the 36 feet wide main chicken house, they could only fit two full rows of cages and two half rows of cages along the side walls. Also, this building was only 130 feet long, just over a third of the length of the main chicken house. Still, we could fit roughly another 5,000 laying hens in this setup. Now this building (referred to as "4 Building" from the hatchery days) only had automated waterers. While the cages were the same as the other building with a slight slant to the bottom and a trough to catch the eggs as they rolled out, there were no belts to convey the eggs to a common location. Thus, the eggs had to be gathered by hand. We had two flat carts in which we'd push up and down the aisle to gather the eggs on put them on 30-egg flats to take to the "egg room" (store) for washing and sorting. Feeding was not fully automated like in the other building, but we did have an augered feed cart in which we'd fill the cart up at the feed bin and drive this little cart up and down the aisle. It had two augers with spouts positioned to dispense feed in the troughs for both the top and bottom rows of cages. Took a steady hand driving that thing in the aisles while making sure you didn't drop any feed out of the trough. Much like the other building, the aisles were raised and the cages were over top of the lower floor level where the manure would drop. Again, not automated like the other building, we did have manure scrapers to push the manure down to an auger at the one end to send out to the manure spreader. The scrapers would hook up to a garden tractor (lawn mower) and we'd drive that up the aisles to clean the manure. It definitely took more work to take care of the chickens in this building and collect their eggs, but we needed those eggs to keep our buyers supplied!
In 1980, with our own market taking off selling not just our eggs, but Stoney Lane Dairy milk and our own vegetables, we needed to relocate the egg washing/grading machine out of store. At the end of the main chicken house there was a small add-on building in which all the conveyor belts brought the eggs to for gathering. In 1980, we tore that little addition down and put up a much bigger one in it's place. This new addition housed the re-located washing/grading machine which was positioned to hook up to the existing egg conveyors so with the flicking of a few switches, eggs would go from the cages to the washing machine to the packing tables without any middlemen (or women). We still only ran the washer/grader 3 days a week, but this set up proved to be faster and more efficient in the long run. This building also featured a large walk in cooler to store the eggs and a loading dock. We had bought a box truck that same year and could now back it up to the loading dock and wheel carts of cleaned and sorted eggs straight to the truck for delivery.
Even with 25,000 laying hens, we still had such a demand for eggs that we had to find some additional suppliers! Throughout the 1970's, we'd sporadically rent a U-Haul box truck to take to egg farms in Lancaster, Pa and fill up with eggs for resale. Eventually, we bought our own box truck for such treks as well as to load more eggs for our deliveries. With the new building having a loading dock we found some egg suppliers who would deliver into the area and now could quickly back up to the loading dock, unload pallets of eggs and be on their way.
Moving the egg washing/grading machine out of the bottom of the building between the house and first two-story building allowed for expansion of the store and now the walk-in coolers in the store building could be used to store our own fruits and vegetables.

More to come on both the egg business and the birth/growth of the farm market store!

Jesse

Our farm market store has been closed since 2017, however, I still run into former customers throughout any given year a...
09/19/2025

Our farm market store has been closed since 2017, however, I still run into former customers throughout any given year and, most of them, ALWAYS ask about Weaver and how he's doing. Well, today, our beloved Weaver passed away.
He came into our lives and this farm in August of 2011 as a 9-week-old puppy and quickly became the official mascot, customer greeter and occasional tour guide of Fairview Farm. He loved the sheep; all of our customers and tenants and they all loved him. He loved car rides, ranger rides, tractor rides and even a good long walk around the property. Thanks for 14 years of pure joy!
RIP Weaver 2011-2025

Jesse

Snowy Saturday afternoon, seems like a good day to get into the next chapter of Fairview Farm history. I apologize in ad...
02/15/2025

Snowy Saturday afternoon, seems like a good day to get into the next chapter of Fairview Farm history. I apologize in advance for going long on this one. We're getting into some of the history that I remember well, so I went into quite a bit detail in some spots here. Some may find it interesting, others might find it to be tediously too much information. Anyways, here's the story of:

"Egg Man!"
By 1966 farms in lower Bucks County were disappearing at alarming rates. Being replaced by suburban housing and developments and strip malls and shopping centers. The demand for newly hatched baby chicks was almost non-existent and the business of selling started pullet hens wasn't as lucrative with less and less farmers in the area and an even smaller percentage of those farmers interested in dealing with chickens just to sell eggs at 50 cents a dozen. By the end of the year, my Grandfather Edwin Daniels II was going to have to make some changes to the place and "go big or go home" in order keep the farm going.
In early 1967, it was decided to get out of the chicken hatchery business, stop raising and selling chicks and pullets, but not get out of the poultry business altogether. With a nice new building only 4 years old, that long chicken house on the North side of the farm was retrofitted to house laying hens. Ed decided the future of the farm lay in, errr, laying hens and selling eggs!
The building was made to raise chickens on the floor, where the chicks could eat, drink, excercise and grow. In 1967, it was set up to house laying hens in cages. The cages were configured in four rows, each row consisting of two sets of two-tiered of cages back to back with each other. In between the rows were raised walkways. Mechanized scrapers would go under the rows of cages to clean the manure. Hundreds of feet of plastic pipe delivered water to automatic water bowls in each cage. feed troughs ran the length of the rows and around the cage rows. At the end closest to the road, the feeders would go underneath a small feed bin. Within the feed throughs was a metal chain with solid plates welded to the links every so many inches. These chains were motorized to go up and down the aisles within the feeders, when going through the feed bin, the plates would push some feed through the troughs to deliver to the chickens up and down the aisles. The cages were slightly slanted with just enough of a gap at the bottom of the low end for any eggs to roll out onto a conveyor belt. The conveyor belt, when activated, would take the eggs to the end of the cage row (at the road end of the building) where they could be gathered by hand into egg flats at one location.
Very high-tech for its time, this one building could now house 20,000 laying hens. With everything being automated, there wasn't much to "feeding" and "watering", it was more, just checking and making sure everything was running correctly. And gathering eggs from all 20,000 hens would be about a 2-3 hour task for 2 people once a day.
In addition to retrofiting the newest chicken house to house laying hens, the store building was retrofited to wash, sort and store the eggs. The bottom of the building (store portion) had been used for the previous few decades to house incubators, hatch, sort and pack baby chicks. Now out of the hatchery business, this area was reconfigured into two walk-in coolers (one to store the eggs before washing and one to store the eggs after they've been washed, sorted and cartoned) and the big area that later became the sales floor had a large egg washer/grading machine set up in it. For those who remember the store configuration, this machine was in the shape of a huge "J". It began around the left end of where the sales counter was later set up (about where the register and scale were). Here, eggs were put onto rollers 30 at a time. We had a device with 30 little suction cups in which you could pick up a flat's worth of eggs at a time, set them on the rollers, then release the suction to leave the eggs on the rollers. Once on the rollers, they slowly moved the eggs through the washer and dryer, which was about where the meat freezer was in the store. Back in the corner (where the milk case is), the eggs would be dropped off, one row at a time, to a conveyor. Once on the conveyor, the eggs would immediately pass over a light single-file. Now, in this back corner (where the milk case is now), we had it all tarped off with black plastic to keep the area dark, so when the eggs passed over the light, someone would sit back there and could easily see any cracked eggs, eggs with bloody yolks or any other defects. These eggs would be pulled out, cracked eggs set aside in cartons, other defective eggs thown away in a bucket. From there, the eggs kept going along the conveyor along that back wall where the produce case is to be sorted out by weight. The eggs would pass over sections of track with springs set for the weights of the eggs. The weight of the eggs would push the conveyor down at certain sections enough for the egg to drop onto a large belt that would push the egg to a gathering section where they'd be cartoned/boxed up by hand. There were 4 of these "weight stations" for the eggs. Being the heaviest, "Jumbo" eggs would drop first, then the next weight station would be set so the "Extra Large" eggs would drop in the next section, then the "Large" and "Medium" into their respective sections. Anythng smaller than medium would go into the last section all the way down toward where is now the left end of the produce case. And all of the eggs would be regathered there by hand, packed into, mostly, styrofoam cartons or cardboard flats, depending where they were headed to.
And the eggs headed to a LOT of places. While many farmers in the area had given up trying to make any kind of money buying baby chicks or started pullets to have eggs to sell, they were more than happy to just buy washed, sorted and packaged eggs from Fairview Farm to resell at their farm stands. Many of our eggs were distributed to these other farmers in the area with their own farm stands and markets including fledgling stores at Penn View Dairy in Dublin, Pa, Styers Orchard in Langhorne, Pa, Hillcrest Market (now Gardenville Deli), Solly Brothers Farm and Tanner Brothers Dairy both in Ivyland, PA. (My Grandfather) Ed Daniels beat the bushes to secure accounts with all of these local farm stands. He also found a market to sell eggs at all of the local restaurants, diners and delis in the area. If they served breakfast, my Grandfather Ed Daniels was on the phone with them selling them Fairview eggs! Some of these included Country Host Restaurant (later New Hope Diner) in New Hope, PA, The Bread Box (now The Bread Crumb) in Doylestown, PA, Wycombe Inn (later Public House, then Wycombe House) in Wycombe, PA and Boswell's Restaurant (now part of Wawa's parking lot) in Buckingham, PA. In addition to farm stands and diners, he also sold eggs to the Neshaminy Manor in Warrington, PA and the Buck County Correctional Facility (prison).

More egg business to come!
Jesse

A farm is not complete without a good dog, and we've had a lot of great ones over the years!Been wanting to share some p...
01/09/2025

A farm is not complete without a good dog, and we've had a lot of great ones over the years!
Been wanting to share some pictures of Fairview Farm dogs for a while, figured today was as good as any to do so.

Jesse

Rainy Saturday, good day to catch up with some more Fairview Farm history. Haven't been keeping up with posting our hist...
12/28/2024

Rainy Saturday, good day to catch up with some more Fairview Farm history. Haven't been keeping up with posting our history much in 2024. I actually got a little bit stuck on this part of our history as the late 1950's through late 1960's were somewhat transition years with a lot going on, but, apparently, not much time to take pictures. I don't know much about this time period, but the little I do, it seemed like:

"The Times They Are A-Changin'"
No doubt, Fairview Farm made a good living off of raising chickens, hatching out baby chicks and selling those baby chicks in the 1940's and '50's. That poultry business supported the families of Edwin L. Daniels, Earl T. Daniels, Edwin L. Daniels II and Paul E. Daniels. It allowed them to buy the neighboring farm (Stoney Lane Farm) and put up more and more buildings to house more and more chickens. However, by the mid-1950's, the markets had shifted, profit margins decreased, and baby chicks weren't in as much demand for people and farmers alike as they had been.
By 1955 Fairview Poultry Farm began diversifying in addition to hatching and selling baby chicks. For one, with more and more farmers buying up the chicks for their own egg-producing flock, (Great-Grandfather) Earl T Daniels became a poultry equipment dealer! The equipment building/corn crib between the farmhouse and the first two-story chicken house was remodeled into what is now (or was until 2017) the farm store. However, at first, it was the UPSTAIRS that was the store! It was actually a showroom for poultry equipment: feeders, waterers, nests, cages, heaters, etc. This is why there were the big bay windows to the upstairs of the store building! At the same time, the section of the stone farmhouse closest to the store was remodeled as well. Immediately when entering the house from the store, to the left was an office with a slide-up window for service of people buying the equipment.
Also, by 1955, while many people and farmers alike were still buying up the newly hatched baby chicks, more and more farmers looking to build their own flocks of egg-laying hens weren't interested in the time and expense of raising the chicks, feeding and tending them, for months before getting any return on their investment with egg production. These farmers were more interested, even if they paid more per chicken, in buying started pullets (young hens) that were already at the age to start laying eggs. This required more buildings. At first, this is what the range huts out in the fields were for as the chicks the farm wanted to raise for our own breeding production were raised out there and as the demand for pullets came, some of those would be sold. As demand got larger for started pullets a one-story building was built adjacent to the building at the South end of the pasture with wooden shingles in 1955. This kept the young hens inside where they were safer from predators and healthier from parasites so to lower mortality rates as this seemed to be the future of making a living with chickens on the farm. In 1963, an even larger one-story building was built to the North of the rest of the buildings to house and raise started pullets. This building was 26 feet wide by 320 feet long! Again, with selling started pullets seemingly the future of the poultry business, this long building seemed like a solid investment!
Also around this time, late 1950's/early 1960's was when Fairview expanded their crop farming. They began farming rented ground including about 30+ acres across from the farm on Pineville Road. By the early 1960's much of their older equipment from the 1940's and early 1950's was replaced with newer, larger and more modern equipment including tractors with larger horsepower, larger plows and planters, a modern (for the early '60's) combine and a larger grain truck.
At the time, these changes seemed to be exactly what needed to be done in order to keep the farm going for decades to come. However, farming is a fickle business and technology and farming practices were changing rapidly in 1960's America. In only a few short years, Fairview Farm would have to do an overhaul in order to stay in the farming business into the 1970's.

Jesse

Admittedly, I'm slacking on the Fairview Farm history. I think I left off in February with the hatchery business of Fair...
10/21/2024

Admittedly, I'm slacking on the Fairview Farm history. I think I left off in February with the hatchery business of Fairview Poultry Farm in the 1940's and '50's. Hadn't done any more because 1) I wasn't sure where to go from there, 2) I hadn't yet written anything more and 3) all of a sudden, it was Summer and I got busy! Still don't quite have the next chapter worked out, but I'm taking a step back, or to the side, whatever, and sharing a bit about my Uncle Paul Daniels.

"Stoney Lane Dairy"
The history of Stoney Lane Dairy can better be told by other relatives, but here's how it relates to Fairview Farm.
Stoney Lane Dairy (now Stoney Lane Farm) sits adjacent to Fairview Farm on the North/Northeast side with its long stoney lane leading out to Ridge Road. When Edwin Daniels bought our property, the neighbor farm (future Stoney lane Farm) extended to nearly where most of our buildings are now with a large field bulging into the 56 acres of Fairview Farm. My Great-Grandfather, Earl Daniels, always felt like that piece of land should go with this farm because of how it was laid out. In 1943, this neighbor farm came up for sale and Earl Daniels bought and annexed the 74-acre farm to Fairview Poultry Farm making the farm 130 acres in total, extending further up Ridge Road and into both Wrightstown and Upper Makefield Townships. This was all farmed as one farm, even had some of the range huts put out in fields that are now part of Stoney Lane Farm. They used the buildings of this farm to house pigs and some beef cattle and were in the process of fixing up the big old dairy barn on the property to house, you guessed it, more chickens!
However, Earl's other son Paul Daniels convinced his father (and Grandfather Edwin) to keep the barn set up for cows because he (Paul) longed to go back to the dairy business that Fairview Farm started out as.
In 1946, Paul Daniels married Doris Wier and they moved into the farmhouse on this annexed property shortly thereafter. They had two sons and while his father Earl and brother Ed raised and hatched out chickens, Paul began milking cows. The two farms, however, were still owned by Earl and operated as one.
In 1956, Earl was ready to pass the torch to his sons. With the two adjacent farms as one property since 1943, Earl turned over the main farm, Fairview Farm, to Ed and the annexed farm, now christened "Stoney Lane Dairy" to Paul. With one difference: The 11 acre field that Earl always felt should go with the main Fairview Farm property, STAYED with Fairview Farm as the property lines were redrawn from the pre-1943 lines. This actually made the farms more even. Instead of Fairview Poultry Farm being 56 acres and Stoney Lane Dairy 74, the new split made Fairview Farm 67 acres and Stoney Lane Dairy 63 acres. That same year, 1-1/2 acres was deeded off of Fairview Poultry Farm at the corner of Pineville Road and Ridge Road for Earl's daughter Myrtle, who had married that year. This made Fairview Poultry Farm about 65-1/2 acres after 1956.
Though the farms were now officially separate, Ed and Paul continued to operate the farms together for years, sharing equipment and hired men depending on which farm needed it more that particular season (or week, or day). By the 1970's, both farms were mostly operating each on their own.
The dairy barn at Stoney Lane Dairy was originally set up with 30 milking stantions. At first, that was enough for Paul. But as he needed to expand his herd to make a living, he added 10 more milking stantions in a separate section of the barn to give him the ability to milk 40 cows at a time.
Around the late 1960's or early 1970's, Paul got Stoney Lane Dairy licensed and certified to sell bottled raw milk. The raw milk business started small, just selling at the farm out of the milkhouse, but soon expanded to small area stores including the fledgling Fairview Farm Market! By 1980, Stoney Lane Dairy was providing nearly 60 area stores with fresh raw milk in plastic jugs of gallon, half-gallon, quart and pint sizes. He sold BOTH kinds of milk: whole milk and chocolate milk! Stoney Lane Dairy was up to 80 Holstein cows milked twice a day. Only being able to milk 40 at a time, each milking was a 3-1/2-hour ordeal! They regularly sold 280 gallons of raw milk a day during the Summer months and over 350 gallons a day through the school year! Though Paul couldn't get a contract to sell to schools, families apparently served his raw milk to their kids before and after school. Paul had 9 employees, 3 full-time, to milk the cows, do field work and deliver the milk. The raw milk, not being pasteurized, was, however, tested every 10 days. The cows were all tested yearly for tuberculosis and brucellosis. The milk was also spot-checked at the stores he sold to and the milkhouse, barn and farm in general was also inspected for cleanliness. In fact, because Paul was selling raw milk, his milk, his cows and his barn was held to higher cleanliness standards than farms who sold their milk to processors!
By 1984, Stoney Lane Dairy sold to nearly 100 stores in the area! By then, Paul had enough full-time employees to have two refrigerated delivery trucks to keep the stores supplied with fresh raw milk. However, it was that year when a certain "consumer advocate" did a hit-piece on T.V. about "the dangers of raw milk". This hit-piece clearly showed jugs of milk with an easily readable "Stoney Lane Dairy" label, then cut to a farm that was NOT Stoney Lane Dairy, showed a woman in dirty clothes milking dirty cows in a dirty, filthy barn! At the end of the piece, this "consumer advocate" held up a gallon of raw milk, again clearly labeled "Stoney Lane Dairy" and ended his report with the words, "This milk can make you very sick...... it can even kill you." In 1984, the general public had, basically, 3 channels to choose from. The 6 o'clock hour was the news hour and most folks made sure to tune in to one of the 3 stations every evening at 6 o'clock to get the news of the day. Just doing the math and calculating the odds, there was a solid chance that at least 1/3 of the area's residences saw the hit-piece and the rest heard about it soon enough. Stoney Lane Dairy's raw milk sales dropped by nearly a third within a week. Lost over half of their business after 2 weeks. A little over a month after the "report", only Fairview Farm Market was carrying the Stoney Lane Dairy-labeled raw milk. Now having to sell most of his milk in bulk for lower per-gallon prices to a processor, the math no longer added up to keep running the operation the way Paul had for the last 15 years. At first, he could no longer afford to keep as many employees on the payroll. After a few months of just selling jugged milk to Fairview Farm Market and out of his milkhouse and the rest to a processor, Paul realized that, without expanding his herd and operation, the money wasn't there to have ANY employees other than himself. This was also a time in Bucks County when the allure of working on a dairy farm to local teens and young adults just wasn't there anymore and there were just better paying options available to anyone who might consider it. Paul got through a few more months with some part-time help and help from his adult sons, but by the end of 1984, at 57 years-old, Paul sold his cows and retired from the dairy business.
Paul spent the next few years continuing to raise heifers, veal calves and even some pigs (bought from Fairview Farm). And with equipment already in place, continued growing hay, straw and grains, but instead of using these crops for his dairy cattle, these became cash crops for the farm. Stoney Lane Dairy was renamed Stoney Lane Farm.
Paul died in 1997 shortly after his 70th birthday. His son has continued crop farming to this day and his grandson began an organic vegetable business a few years ago.

Jesse

100 years ago today, my Grandmother Lois Daniels was born. I'm sure any patrons of the Farm Market up til about 2010 wil...
08/08/2024

100 years ago today, my Grandmother Lois Daniels was born. I'm sure any patrons of the Farm Market up til about 2010 will remember her working in the store. She passed away in 2019, less than a month away from her 95th birthday. She really had a fascinating life. I've tried to condense it, but it still runs long, yet is far from complete. Here's what I've gotten so far:

Lois A. Buckman was born in a hospital in Trenton, New Jersey on August 8th, 1924. I guess it was the closest hospital to her family's farm in Dolington, Upper Makefield Township, Pennsylvania. Kinda surprising she was born in a hospital as my Grandfather Ed Daniels was born, here in the farmhouse. Her parents were Frank and Ethel (Leedom) Buckman. Their family farm was located just above the little town of Dolington within the "V" created by Old Dolington Road and Washington Crossing Road, nearly all the way up to Wrightstown Road. This tract of land encompassed 96 acres in all.
In December of 1926, Frank died of a heart attack while attempting to crankstart the engine to their truck.
Though they still had some farmhands, as well as relatives to help keep the farm going, Ethel ultimately decided to sell the animals and sell the farm and move herself, Lois and her 3 older siblings (Grace Elva, Wesley and Irv) to a small, two-story home in Buckingham Valley of neighboring Buckingham Township.
Ethel never did drive (relatives moved the family to Buckingham Valley), but in their new home and neighborhood, she didn't have to. There was a general store across the street from the house and a train station next door (tracks ran behind their house). Also had kindly neighbors who would take her and/or the kids anywhere they needed to go that was too long a walk. But, they did a LOT of walking. The kids walked about 2 miles every day to the school in Buckingham and a good mile into Forest Grove every Sunday for Church. This is where Lois would grow up and experience all of her childhood memories, or as she often called them "remember whens". In her private memoirs she felt it was the perfect place for her mom to raise a family as they had everything they needed right there.
For income, Ethel took what was left from the sale of the family farm and animals after buying the house and bought and held mortgages for local home owners. While she always had a good net worth in doing so, the monthly income was low, especially in trying to raise 4 children. She scrimped and saved by feeding the family with primitive meals such as cornmeal mush and homemade strawberry shortcake (something we think of as a dessert would be their dinner!) She would clothe them with hand-me-downs from relatives and neighbors and patch up any worn clothing that still fit by hand. The house itself was relatively small for a two-story house. It had a living room and kitchen, a bedroom for the two boys, a small bedroom for Grace Elva and a "master bedroom" for Ethel and two-year-old Lois. However, that ended up never changing and Lois shared her mother's bedroom into her teens and didn't get a room of her own until the boys grew up and moved out. The house came without electric nor a bathroom. Ethel had electric installed before they moved in but didn't get an indoor bathroom until (in my Grandmother's words) "MUCH later".
Lois continued going to the Buckingham school through graduation. When she entered 6th grade, the Pineville school had closed and all the students were sent to Buckingham school. I suppose because the Pineville school kids were mostly farm kids and considered inferior to the towns' kids of Buckingham, the Pineville students were held back a grade. So the Pineville class that had graduated 6th grade in the Pineville school would have to repeat the 6th grade in the "more sophisticated" Buckingham school. Among those Pineville 6th graders who were made to repeat the grade was one Edwin L. Daniels II, my Grandfather.
My grandparents knew each other from 6th grade on, but never developed a relationship while in school. There was only one "class" for their graduating class, so they obvious got to be friends and were even in the school's drama club together. It was after graduating in 1942 that they began actually dating. Probably in the Fall/Winter of 1942-43. On September 22nd, 1945, my Grandparents were married.
For about 3 years, they lived in a tenant house on a farm on Ridge Road. My grandfather still worked on this farm, but my grandmother worked as a bookkeeper somewhere else (not sure exactly where or for who). In 1949, their house was built across the driveway of the main stone farmhouse and they lived the rest of their lives there on the farm. In the late 1960's, after doing more than her fair share of the farm work over the years, she was made full partner in the Fairview Farm business.
Though our customers likely fondly remember her working in the store in later years, she actually worked alongside my Grandfather and everyone else feeding chickens in the range huts, gathering eggs both free range and when everything was automated, planting tomatoes, cantaloups, etc, picking peas, stringbeans, apples, peaches, etc. She sold our fruits and vegetables at tailgate markets in Philadelphia, a roadside stand in Warrington and apples at Peddler's Village's Apple Festival in addition to in our store.
I have many more specific memories of my grandmother Lois (Buckman) Daniels, but they are already part of the Fairview story and will be told as I get to those "chapters". She was the storyteller of the family and much of the Fairview history from before my time, came through her. She loved a good "gotcha" joke in which she would with a straight face get you to believe something ridiculous only to pull the rug out from under you and tell you that she was joking. She loved her poems, cooking and baking, making Christmas cookies, canning/freezing fruits and vegatables. She loved her Church, the same one in Forest Grove that her, her mother and older siblings walked to for years. She became a member of Forest Grove Presbyterian Church in the mid-1930's and brought the whole Daniels family to the church with her when she and Edwin married. When she died in 2019, she was the longest active member of the church.

So much more I could say, but I'll leave it at "Happy heavenly birthday!"

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