29 things that the Pa. Farm Show butter sculpture has honored
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The 2019 Pennsylvania Farm Show butter sculpture was unveiled Jan. 3, 2019. Its title is “Find Your Power” and is made of more than 1,000 pounds of butter. (Lisa Wardle/WITF)
(Undated) — The butter sculpture at the Pennsylvania Farm Show has honored a lot of people and things:
Ben Franklin, football players, former President Dwight Eisenhower (who had a home in Gettysburg), the Amish community, firefighters, soldiers, Ben Franklin again, milkshakes and so on.
Here’s a look.
(Descriptions are from the American Dairy Association North East, which sponsors the butter sculpture.)
1991: Ben Franklin
1992: Dairy Princes with 4-H Child
1993: Ice cream vendor
1994: Football players
1995: World War II butter rations
1996: President Eisenhower feeding a calf
1997: Amish community (Amish boy pulling a calf)
1998: School lunch program (cafeteria lady with apples)
1999: Miss Commonwealth
2000: Tribute to county fairs (carousel)
2001: Produce market (first use of colored butter)
2002: Tribute to 9/11 heroes
2003: Tribute to Pa. Farm Show (cow with relief sculptures)
2004: Tribute to Milton Hershey (use of chocolate)
2005: Tribute to Farmland Preservation
2006: Tribute to progress in the dairy industry (old milk wagon delivering new milk vending machine)
2007: Ben Franklin with the Liberty Bell
2008: Tribute to agricultural education in Pennsylvania (children boarding school bus with cow)
2009: Tribute to the Pennsylvania National Guard and dairy farm families
2010: Dairy farms’ economic contribution (farm family at breakfast table)
2011: Tribute to Fuel Up to Play 60 (kids on jungle gym, farmer and football player)
2012: Tribute to 100th anniversaries of the Pennsylvania 4-H and Pennsylvania State Association of County Fairs
2013: Tribute to PA Preferred
2014: Tribute to 60th anniversary of the PA Dairymen’s Association Milkshake
2015: Tribute to local food banks and the “Fill a Glass with Hope” milk campaign
2016: In honor of the 100th Pennsylvania Farm Show and the people who participate in the
show’s contests and exhibits
2017: Tribute to dairy farmers who are committed to A Culture of Stewardship
2018: Pennsylvania Dairy Industry: Strength in Our Diversity. Careers from Crop to Consumer.
2019: Choose PA Dairy and Find Your Power
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FILE PHOTO: The Pennsylvania Farm Show Butter Sculpture is unveiled during a ceremony at the Farm Show complex Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015, in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bower)
The sculptors
1991-1994: Raymond Mackintosh
1995: Jim Victor
1996-2002: Ed Shank
2003-2007: Jim Victor
2008-2019: Jim Victor and Marie Pelton