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FCAD part of sentimental journey
I am a 1959 Quincy High School graduate and came home to take a “sentimental journey.” My oldest son who lives with his family in Raleigh, N.C., and I planned the trip purposely to have it around “Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day.”
It met all my expectations and more. We started the whole adventure with a great dinner at the “Chef and Farmer” night at the White Heron.
With all the fresh foods coming from a 20-mile radius of Quincy it was quite a treat. Each dish picture perfect and so tasty.
We did participate in the “Farm to Market” race — I had to take pictures of the beautiful morning on the fields so my timing wasn’t great. (good excuse) What a unique setting for a race!
We missed the dedication at the Memorial Park, but spent time at it later and I lingered over all the names with a grateful heart. I plan to enter my father’s name for next year. (Fred Newman, who served in the Army.)
The parade was fun! I liked seeing all the smiling children and the machinery was very interesting to me. However, I did need someone to tell me their functions.
I visited too long in the school arena to see the produce. It all went too quickly.
It is very important that the prices keep to what the farmers get to help educate us “city folk” on the real price of what we buy. This is a very unique idea and very necessary in this world of ours, where so many are so removed from the farmer and yet so dependent.
The Reiman-Simmons House and Pioneer Church is a special place that Quincy is very fortunate to have, thanks to many people, but “driven” from what I can see by Harriet Weber. Appreciate her.
She is full of enthusiasm, and respect for all the pioneers who were brave enough to make Quincy their home.
To document this and have a home we can show our children and teach them the history of, is so important.
I was treated so well in all the stores that I visited or purchased something from.
Many Hispanic faces greeted me and helped me. Quincy is gaining by the rich culture that the Hispanics bring. I heard many compliments on the help they have brought the farmers and to Quincy in many aspects. May we always learn and exchange from them and they from us.
I “Cruised the Crops” on Saturday from the Reiman-Simmons House — Dale Gibson kept us all very interested in all the complicated life that the farmer has before him.
My seating partner was Carl Weber who is 96 years young. He added some humor along the way. This is a gentle man who is brimming with Quincy history. Spend a few hours with him and you will be enchanted.
I heard this quote: “Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale,” (Anonymous).
That is how I felt about my visit to Quincy.
— Carol (Newman) Duin, Asheville, North Carolina
