Entries by Harry Jarrett

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The Experience

The calm is transfixing. Crickets echo across slopes of green. The gentle rays of the sun warm the air. A cool, soft breeze billows white fabric and rustles white rose petals. White chairs, white linens, white plates, white flowers… and a white dress, all beckon one of the most meaningful moments in our lives.

It’s wedding day On Sunny Slope Farm.

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No Tricks – Just Treats

From 5pm to 10pm On Sunny Slope Farm will be open to our community for an exciting evening of scrumptious food, great music and thrilling games for all. Food vendors include a hearty meal from Mamma’s Caboose and tantalizing deserts from Smiley’s Ice Cream food truck. More food trucks will be added based on tickets sales.

Alsace to America – part 2

Alsace to America When they arrived in Pennsylvania, they already had a place to go. Somehow, Hans Peter Sr. had arranged to buy 200 acres of land in Bethel Township, Lancaster County. Records show that he began payment March , 1740, almost a full year before they left for America. This brings new light to […]

Hans Peter Wampfler – Alsace to America

Hans Peter Wampfler was born in 1701 in Sparsbach, Alsace . Like his father, he became a linen weaver. He married Anna Veronica Lung of Zollingen about 1719. They lived in the village of Hinsingen but since there was not church there, the christening records of their seven children are in Keskastel and Atweiler nearby. […]

From Zwischenfluh to the Valley

The first Wampflers were from an area in Switzerland near what is now Bern. There are several very small villages, some of no more than two or three houses, that are in the Diemtig Valley and the first records of our family are found in a church in one of these villages called Zwischenfluh. In […]