Penryn Sunday School Picnic

On the third Saturday of August you will find the best chicken corn soup in the world for sale at the St. Paul Lutheran Church's Sunday School picnic. It is held in the Penryn Picnic Grove. I have missed a few of these but I think my Dad has been to about 82 of them. Last Saturday they had nice weather and lots of soup. They also had hamburgers, hot dogs, watermelon, fruit cup, and lots of pies and cakes.

Here are two former Galebach girls in charge of pies and cakes--Ilene Galebach Landis and Brenda Galebach Sweigert.

In the soup kitchen they cooked the chicken corn soup in big kettles over a fire. I have no idea how many kettles of soup they made or how many chickens they used or how many ears of corn. The corn this year was raised especially for the soup by Jack Uibel.

Here are the two oldest Uibel girls, Sarah and Sylvia.

Sylvia's children: Hannah, Rebecca and Jacob Sugarman visiting Penryn from New York.

Millie Keener, Dolly Bomberger and Mom (Dorothy Galebach) having a lot of fun washing dishes, or maybe just trays.

The Malta Band played all evening. No one is sure how many years they have played at this picnic, but they have been in existence for 100 years and the Sunday School picnic has been held for most of those years. I have videos of the soup-making and the band playing the Stars and Stripes and a couple of clips of the cakewalks but I haven't been able to upload them tonight on here. I will try again another day.