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LAMP LESSONS

This is a giving of thankis for one of our neighborhood founders and their selfless sacrifices.

Posted Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:13 pm ET|Updated Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:29 pm ET

In the years immediately following World War II

Kensington Estates was built on the Peters family farm;

every morning before daybreak, Mr. Peters would take his kerosene

lamp to feed and milk his dairy cattle in what is now my back

yard; beding very cautious and judicious of his surrounding and the

animals in his care. Northing was taken for granted as he went

about his early morning and evening routines. Gathering fresh hay

from his fields and bringing in the herd from the pasture land;

tending to the needs of all his animals and those in his family. As

they sat around table by lamp light they gave thanks to God,

their Creator and sustainer for all which they had been given

in trust to them. Life was difficult in those early years but by

the Lamp of Faith and trust in their creator they thrived for many

years. As I drive by their farmhouse on Summit Avenue I wonder

and marvel at the works of those early Kensington pioneers.

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