Sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s a truck carrying cows either overturned or broke down along the Lincoln Highway in Exton, PA in front of The Guernsey Cow. The cows, on the loose, were drawn to the giant Guernsey Cow billboard and milled around in its shade and that of the nearby trees. [...]
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Cows on the run
Posted in history, tagged 1940s, 1950s, billboard, cows, exton, exton pa, Lincoln Highway, The Guernsey Cow on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Famous
Posted in famous, history, Uncategorized, tagged caramels, exton, famous on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Growing up I would see the word “famous” on the all the Guernsey Cow packaging. I’m assuming I believed it. By the time I was a doubting teenager I knew it was true. My aunt Saundra Polite Schier — Gladys & Larry Polite’s #2 daughter — sent me a couple of stories about The Guernsey [...]