We continued celebrating America’s 250th anniversary in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, with a cold summertime treat and a sweet history lesson at a farm that’s been in the same family for five generations.
“So, this is my grandfather Oscar and his wife Eva, my grandmother,” said Donna Quigley as she looked over family photos. Those memories planted the seeds for the nearly 200-acre Merrymead Farm she co-owned in Worcester. “My grandfather purchased it from his uncle, Amandus, in 1923.”
After years of sending the cows’ milk off-site to be mixed into ice cream, son-in-law John Carr said bringing the process home still keeps families lining up for Merrymead’s signature treat…