Sunday, February 10, 2008

 

Billboards on I-78 announce some of the major attractions of our corner of Pennsylvania "Dutch" Country. The sign on left mentions a schoolhouse. That one is brick and was once in Lenhartsville. Several years ago, it was moved intact to Kutztown by a firm of Amish house movers. They have to hire someone who is not Amish to drive the truck, but their own people do all the manual labor associated with such jobs. As it happened, the day they were moving the schoolhouse south on PA-737, PennDoT had also given us a permit to move an over-width mobile home north on the same two-lane road. When we got to the the Kutztown By-Pass we had to pull onto the shoulder and wait about two hours for the schoolhouse to clear the road. By that time, our daylight-only permit was about to expire. But, rather than leave my new home by the side of the road overnight and apply for another permit the next day, we forged ahead and got the thing home about an hour after dark without getting stopped by the PSP.
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