29 things that the Pa. Farm Show butter sculpture has honored
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
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
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