And here we see the first day of 8th grade. This is the last year of the Swallowtail Waldorf School. We’re hoping to get Chloe into an arts high school in Beaverton for 9th. Stay tuned!
Before we headed off to PA, Chloe and her chums went to perennial kid favorite: The Enchanted Forest!
The Enchanted Forest is a fairy tale themed amusement park just south of Portland.
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Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton International Airport serves Bethlehem – where Peeps are made! (Can you tell?)
Hi Mom! It is great to be back. Chloe hasn’t been here since she was too small to stand. Grandpa Hausman, the cabinet maker and high school wood shop teacher built this house. Pretty great to this day!
We got a bit Dutchy – visiting the old neighborhood with its covered bridge and 1860’s mill dam.
We went to the Pennsylvania German Heritage Center in Kutztown. I goofed up on my research and it turned out to be closed that day. But we got photos!
Since we’re Fancy Dutch, not Plain Dutch we don’t know how to actually farm anything these days, but it is part of our story. The last operating farms in the family date back to Chloe’s great-grandmother’s era. Most of that is now suburban housing around Allentown. For those of you who don’t know there were so many of us German settlers that the first newspaper in Allentown was printed in German. In living memory are people born here in the US but didn’t learn English until they were sent to school. Get aught, nah!
We went up to the Trexler Nature Preserve to frolic in the Jordan River for a bit. Chloe learned how to skip rocks. We got to see some bison and also were pretty close to three wild deer who had come down to the river. Chloe’s great-great grandmother Verna Peters used to talk about being hired by General Trexler to bring water to the people working at the nature preserve.
