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Life on a farm is fun for Sally and Sue, but like all little girls, they love to get dressed up on Sunday.
On the rural delivery route out of the town of New Hope, Pennsylvania, a sign reads: "Celebrity Farm. Purebred Guernseys. Ted Steele."
Neighboi-hood farmers aren't impressed with the name. Celebrities are something they can take or leave. They can see plenty every summer, if they've a mind to, on the stage or in the audiences of the famous Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope. But cows count. So now, after two years, the Steeles — ^Ted, Doris, and their two little girls — are being accepted into the life of the community. Not because they are the Mr. and Mrs. Music of radio over WMCA or the Ted Steeles of the CBS and DuMont television networks. No indeed. Because they are practical farmers who take the job seriously. For instance, almost all the feed required for their forty-odd head of prize cattle is raised right there. They have a little more than a hundred acres and this fall they will rent additional land from a neighbor, after his crops are in.
Ted and Doris bought the farm in the summer of 1947 and moved in with some borrowed beds and one lamp. They sat on the floor the first few nights and planned what they would buy and where they would put it. They're still planning, still looking for certain {Continued on page 90)
Part of the house on Celebrity Farm dates way back to the late seventeenth century; the wing on the left was added later. Doris decorated the interior in the tradition of the Pennsylvania Dutch.
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