Our Local Mud Sale
Part I
Saturday, March 20
What is a mud sale you ask?
Excerpts from the 2010 Mud Sale Guide with layout and design by our daughter, Deb.
At the beginning of every year, local communities come together to support their local volunteer fire companies by holding auctions that have affectionately become known as Mud Sales.
Roy and Deb watching an auction.
Deb asked me to go early to get some photos for the 2011 Mud Sale Guide, as they would be arriving late. She needed to photograph another mud sale which was being held the same day.
The term Mud Sale was coined from the condition of the ground when the auctions are held. However, Saturday was a beautiful day, with very little mud to be found.
Since the 1960s, Mud Sales have helped build fire houses, purchase equipment, and enable training for fire fighters, EMS units, and First Responders in rural Lancaster, Chester, and York Counties.
Area townships, the Amish community, and local businesses support the sales with donated and consigned items, becoming a bargain hunter’s paradise.
For over forty years, Mud Sales have become spectacular events with various items being auctioned, including but not limited to:
Farm Equipment
Hay and Straw
Antiques
Wagon loads of almost anything
Shrubbery and Plants
Horses and Ponies
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Tomorrow Night: Mud Sale ~ Part 2
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