Thursday, September 5, 2013

Bovina's Last Old Home Day

Bovina starting in the early 1920s, had annual Town Picnics often known as 'Old Home Day.'  The last such picnic with that label happened forty nine years ago today.  Here's the report from the Delaware Republic Express issue of September 10, 1964:



For a further history of past town picnics, see this blog for May 31 and July 2, 2009.

Two photos by Frances Burns.  The left one is the 'Lazy Farmers' mentioned in the article - Gary is in the wagon and Paul is pulling it.

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