Highest point in Lancaster County PA. Climb #27 of 67 trees on 67 mountains in 67 counties.

Climb #23
Lancaster County
Sept. 3, 2023
40.315369, -76.152598
Texter Mountain
A Hickory Dickory Day.
Today I made it to the highest point in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. There, in the middle of a field, was a gigantic Shellbark hickory tree. It is also the location where Lancaster, Lebanon, and Berks counties all come together. The landowner, Steve, Graeff, granted me access to his tree. From the top, I could see North to the Blue Mountain and south to Welsh Mountain. There were two horses in the pasture below me. I’m not sure what they thought of me. The horses belong to a neighboring family, who were getting ready to celebrate a six year old girl's birthday today. I sang happy birthday to her from the top of the tree. On my drive I stopped at the Conrad Weiser homestead in Berks county, just a few miles to the north. It felt great to revisit this site and walk the grounds. Years ago I performed with Rich Pawling and Matt Harrison at the homestead. Conrad Weiser is so important to the story of Pennsylvania and to my immigrant German ancestors. There is a monument in memory of Chief Shikellamy at the site as well. To the best of my knowledge this is the only such monument to Shikellamy in the country. Both of these men worked for peace in our region as well as for fair treatment of native people.

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Who needs a late night show, when you can have a Wagner singing "happy birthday" when climbing a tree!

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Barks!

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Yorker here. I think they pronounced it YARICK or something similar.