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Prairie Days entertains, educates over 5,000

GREENVILLE – “Elizabeth Borden took an ax…” Lizzie Gilbert, 10, offered a sour grin as she acknowledged her familiarity by adding… “and killed her mother with 40 wacks… Yeah,” she said, “I know all about Lizzie Borden.” She clicked her clicker. Lizzie is from Van Wert and volunteered as the official counter… click. Click.

As of about 11 a.m. she had tallied 401 visitors. She stopped mid-sentence as another Greenville Transit bus pulled up and passengers began unloading. Click click click… Now up to 419. The 2014 Darke County Parks Prairie Days had only been open for an hour.

Lizzie lost interest in further conversation and concentrated on her primary responsibility… clicking the clicker as bus after bus pulled into the Shawnee Prairie parking lot and unloaded their visitors.

As they had in the past, Prairie Days planners and volunteers offered a large variety of activities to keep visitors busy and interested. Apples and cider were being boiled to make apple butter… with visitors chief among those stirring the pot. “We started about 9 this morning,” said Dave Meyer. “It (the apple butter) will be ready about 4.” He added they use Grimes Golden and Ida Reds from Downing Farms, noting they planned to use 10 bushels of apples and 34 gallons of cider over the weekend. “That will give us about 20 pints of apple butter...

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