LAWRENCE COUNTY

Drive-it-yourself tour features 6 stops weekend of Sept. 25

• The Llama Bean Farm, owned by Gene and Robin Reeher. About 25 llamas are trained for backpacking and cart driving. The family also breeds, shows and sells the animals. The farm is down a winding, country path off U.S. 19.
  
• The Twentier Dairy Farms is on Breakneck Road near McConnell’s Mill State Park. Owned by Gerald and Susanne Twentier and their son, Jeff, the family raises about 56 head of Holstein milk cows, 36 heifers and 12 beef cows of an Angus bull and Holstein cross. The full-time farm has been in the Twentier family since 1916. Amy Liggett, Beaver-Lawrence County Dairy Princess, will sponsor a milk promotion booth at the farm both days of the tour.
  
• Hunt’s Polled Hereford Farm in Slippery Rock Township boasts 200 head of polled Hereford cattle and a few crossbreeds. The farm, owned by Roy and Sally Hunt, also grows corn and corn silage, alfalfa, mixed hay, wheat, barley, oats, rye and spelt. The Hunt family has been raising Hereford cattle for breeding purposes since 1952.
  
• The Boak Orchard Slope Farm in Slippery Rock Township raises 14 varieties of apples, 20 varieties of winter squash, as well as pears, concord grapes and pumpkins. Owners Bob and Sherry Boak anticipate this year’s harvest of pumpkins will be between 60,000 and 70,000. The Boaks represent the eighth generation of the family operating the farm. The family market will also be open for the tour.
  
• The Western Pennsylvania Antique Tractor Puller’s Association will sponsor tractor pulls at the Portersville Steam Show Grounds both days of the tour. Sept. 25’s pull begins at 9 a.m. An exhibitional pull begins at noon Sept. 26. The steam show grounds is also the official food and rest stop on the tour. Available for purchase will be food prepared by the Portersville/Muddy Creek Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary.
  
• Cleland Rock, a scenic lookout at the edge of McConnell’s Mill State Park is another stop on the tour. The flat-surfaced boulder has been the site of several weddings. Looking down about 400 feet, visitors can get a view of Slippery Rock Gorge.
  While in the park, visitors may stop at the McConnell’s Mill Heritage Days Festival held both days. The festival centers on the operational era of the old mill, 1852-1929, and features artists and crafts people representing that period. The festival is open Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
  

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Updated August 28, 1999
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