For Penn State Public Broadcasting, I'm PJ O'Connell.

Leisure time has become an expectation.

Many of us plan our weekends, holidays, and vacations with immense care.

Whether they are to be tightly scheduled or whether we prefer a more lackadaisical approach, we anticipate and expect our leisure time.

It's an American tradition.

And from the local fireman's carnival to the county fair concerts, It's a rural American tradition.

This edition of the Pennsylvania parade focuses on some leisure time activities.

For one group, it means oiling up the old hunting rifle and trudging out into the woods to bag a buck.

For others, it means bingo, pitching nickels, buying a chance, or pigs in blankets.

Watch for that one.

The activities vary, but the goal is a good time, rain or shine, with family and friends at a festival or trudging through God's country.

[MARCUS HUMMON, "GOD'S COUNTRY, USA"] MARCUS HUMMON: (SINGING) While roaming through the hills of Pennsylvania Enjoying all the scenes along the way I found a place for folks called Potter County Potter County, God's Country USA RALPH WENTZ: And whenever people see God's country, they know we're talking about Potter County.

And it's an unspoiled area in reality.

We don't have industry here with a lot of pollution.

We'd like more industry in the area if it can be of the non-polluting type.

And to find this, it's very difficult.

We're far from the market in one sense.

We're within a day's drive of probably half of the population of the United States.

But God's Country is basically recreation.

It's not industry.

We don't have the industrial parks.

People that have come here have come here to get away from the rat race.

They've come to get away from it all.

MALE RADIO ANNOUNCER: And we're reminding you to stay tuned to Frankie's Polka Party and old timers show.

FEMALE RADIO ANNOUNCER: Heard weekdays on radio station WFRM in Coudersport, Pennsylvania.

I think it's a deserved connotation.

It is God's Country.

You can go out your back door.

You can take a walk in the woods.

You can hunt if you want.

You can ski if you want.

You can chop your own wood if you want, and chances are nobody's going to bother you.

And it's a very delightful, laid back life.

NEWS REPORTER: He observed the power line down across the highway about six feet off the ground.

Penny Lac officials advised state police that the beaver had cut down a tree, causing it to fall onto the power line, breaking it loose from a pole.

It's wild country.

It's big woods.

It's about 52% forest land, State forest land.

And it's probably some of the best fishing that's left in the State of Pennsylvania.

And it's definitely the best deer hunting left in Pennsylvania.

We're sparsely populated.

We have room to breathe and work our elbows around.

And it's just a great place.

We can walk out the door and be in the woods or on the stream fishing or be hiking just out our back door.

We just we just really love it here.

Right now I can't think of anywhere else I'd rather live in Potter County.

REPORTER (ON RADIO): And now the hospital news.

Admissions to Charles Cole memorial hospital, Mrs. Karen Haskins of Coudersport, David Lapte of Port Allegany.

This is Linda Yarris of Austin.

This is Robin Woods of Sinnemahoning.

ROBERT CURRIN: A lot of people came from Philadelphia and some from New Jersey, Long Island, and New York City area.

Mostly there are people who a rural setting.

You'd have to a rural setting to live in this area.

Coudersport it's the biggest town in the County, and it has roughly 3000 people.

RADIO ANNOUNCER: Radio WDUI it's 7:59 before 8:00.

This is insight into public interest.

Outmigration remains as the number one problem facing our area.

When more people move out of an area than move in, this becomes a drain on every local activity.

Taxes must be paid by those remaining.

I personally like it.

A lot of people don't.

I think a lot of people feel trapped in that they're here and there's nothing else.

And there's no hope of getting away.

RADIO ANNOUNCER: The way to keep people here is to provide jobs.

The way to provide jobs is to seek industry.

Isn't there anyone who will go out and try to bring some new industry to this area?

Doesn't anybody care?

This has been insight, response-- And how we do it and how we proceed and what we bring in will be the kind of things that we're going to have to work on.

But we've got to decide how many, how much, where and when.

And we must also know how many-- what efforts we're going to put forth to maintain perhaps the farming.

MAN: The last few years, we've had a lot of people from the southern part of the state moving into the area.

They buy farms and they turn it into a recreation farm, a place to go hunting, fishing.

And realtors buy up some of these lands and then subdivide them.

It is inevitable.

The only thing is that if they are handled properly, they're a benefit to the people as well as an increase in the tax rate and the burden which is stressed throughout the County because of the small population of Potter County, which is roughly between 17 and 18,000.

And there's a lot of problems that we're going to have in the future.

Without actively planning, it's going to take away from our quality of life and the reason that people are here in the first place.

I couldn't name right specifically right now any particular problem because there's none that bother me that much at the present time.

If it is, it'd be on a state or national level rather than a local.

[MARCUS HUMMON, "GOD'S COUNTRY, USA"] MARCUS HUMMON: (SINGING) I found a place God had not forgotten The hills so green The sky so blue each day And folks that still respect our flag and country Potter County, God's country, USA.

NARRATOR: Sunday in God's country, an American classic.

But this is a special Sunday, the Sunday after Thanksgiving.

And Potter County is undergoing a dramatic transformation.

[gun fire] Number four.

Bob out.

RADIO ANNOUNCER: Deer season will open a half hour before sunrise Monday, November the 26th, and close at sunset on Saturday, December the 8th.

Pennsylvania's total 1979 pre-hunting season Deer population is down slightly from last year.

However, the game commission is hopeful that hunters will report harvesting at least 57,000 buck and another 62,000 antlerless deer.

Food shortages are probable in the coming months in some sections.

RALPH WENTZ: Buck season in Potter County means that there will be a lot of greenbacks, a lot of money coming into Potter County.

And there are people and there are businesses within the county that wait for this season because it does bring a lot of money in here.

REPORTER (ON RADIO): 121,241.

And Potter County again led the State with 2420 bucks and 2,903 antlerless deer harvested.

A highlight of the bucks season in Potter County is the 22nd annual big buck contest, co-sponsored by the Coudersport chamber of commerce and Potter County recreation, Inc. More news after this.

Electric Sox, northerner and soilwork mark five boots, case and buck knives, vehicle gun racks, targets for good enough-- $2.12.

$4.

When it starts getting real cold, They'll all be leaving, just like the Robins.

So then we'll be back by ourselves.

I'm overwhelmed.

I've never had so much attention all my life.

[gun fire] Oh, they all have pretty good buck kills.

Yeah, there's quite a few deer.

How many people you have lost up there every year?

Well, once in a while you get a few.

But not-- not too many.

Most only sometime you have somebody with a heart attack or a fell or something, you.

But once in a while, you get a few days off.

MAN: Hunting season does have an effect because it brings more people in.

And with more people come more problems.

Contrary to some popular opinion, it isn't a third World War in Potter County on the first day of deer season.

It's abnormal to have anyone shot, really.

It happens.

It's happened again and again, but it's few in number.

Occasionally, somebody shoots themselves or their friend, but that's the exception rather than the rule.

HUNTER: Just about centered in line.

So if you want to stay with that-- Bottom one on zero.

Bottom.

[inaudible] HUNTER: Savvy.

You're shot is good.

Yeah, it's in the ball.

But she's jerking the rifle.

OK. You understand.

OK, sir.

Big punch.

No.

Speak English?

Whichever.

He's come from San Michele Di San.

Province in Quebec.

He's coming here for three years here.

It's a good place for the hunter.

He loves the place because every people is beautiful people.

Thank you.

You understand?

DAVID WOLF: I don't really know how it all started.

They look at Pennsylvania as being one of the leaders in deer harvest and you look at the top of the list, and there's Potter County.

And it's continually there.

It's a traditional leader in deer harvest.

And with that, you get articles that are written quite often in sports illustrated article with NBC coming into the county.

And even if it's not everything that is shown to be, people will come to see what it's all about.

[music playing] [band singing] BOB PEKARSKI: This is a yearly occasion to raise money for the fire department.

And hope hunters and everybody has a good time, local people, anybody.

(SINGING) Go, Johnny.

Go, go, go Go, go, go, go PAUL HEIMEL: Well, it all starts about the Friday afternoon before the Monday of hunting season when they start pulling in with their campers and everything else, and the streets start to become crowded and the bar rooms fill up and jukeboxes are turned up to full capacity.

And it's a big party for most of them.

Well, a lot of them are very serious hunters, though, too.

Well, they look forward to it every year.

I know some who-- they didn't come to party.

They came to get their deer.

[THE CASCADES, "RHYTHM OF THE FAILING RAIN"] (SINGING) Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain Telling me just what a fool I've been I wish that it would go and let me cry in vain And let me be alone again Oh, listen was in the falling rain Pitter-patter Pitter-patter Oh RADIO ANNOUNCER: Good morning on the Super Six, a song that might be appropriate for this morning, "Listen to the Rhythm of the Falling Rain" at 6:21, 57f, 14c on the outside.

On a Monday morning.

It lines open.

INTERVIEWER: What about conditions today?

HUNTER: Bad.

Really nasty.

A lot better with about six inches of snow on the ground.

INTERVIEWER: Tell me a little bit about why a grown adult individual would be out?

HUNTER: Don't mean it.

I was asking myself when I was sitting over there getting soaked.

I just enjoy getting out, really.

I don't-- it doesn't matter if I ever get a deer myself.

I'd like to get one this year.

This is supposed to be the mecca for deer, Porter County.

REPORTER (ON RADIO): Annual buck season open today, one half hour before sunrise and will conclude at sunset December the 8th.

According to State police officials and area businessmen, this year's influx of hunters seems to be higher than in several recent years.

District game protector Richard Curfman of Coudersport predicts that the harvest will be low in Potter county, despite the large number of hunters because the lack of snow will prevent tracking deer.

Deer season in Potter County has become such a publicized ritual that is reportedly has attracted the attention of NBC news, which is scheduling a 15 minute segment on the network's prime time program.

We would like to remind hunters to exercise caution.

They're out there.

We can get them if it quit raining.

I saw-- I saw nine this morning.

How many did you see?

13.

Saw 13.

Just too wet, though.

We're from New Jersey, and we're a little disappointed with the deer hunting here in Pennsylvania.

Penns is a little better than Vermont, but not quite as good as Jersey.

Well, it looks like a typical Potter County first day of buck season around here.

I got so busy, people were out here pumping gas.

And they weren't even coming in to pay for it.

They just take off.

Just makes me feel that 10% of the hunters that come up here are a bunch of you know whats.

They don't care about nobody except themselves.

And the other 90% are a hell of a bunch of good guys.

I've talked to a lot of them, especially the French that come down from Canada.

They're really nice.

They're very nice, in fact.

As far as that goes, I wish the 10% would stay the hell home, and the other 90% could stay as long as they wanted to because I like them.

REPORTER (ON RADIO): Andre Arsenal, age 27, of Quebec, Canada, was injured early this morning in an accidental shooting.

According to the Coudersport based State police, the incident occurred in a wooded area along a rural road in Bingham Township when the victim was cleaning his rifle and it discharged with a bullet striking his ring finger.

He was taken to Charles Cole Memorial Hospital by a friend and was treated.

Let's go up.

Up again.

OK. Up high is enough now.

Yeah, I was hunting up in Harrison Valley today, and it seems that it turned out pretty good.

Got myself an eight pointer.

And I went up by myself, my pap, and his buddy, got a little wet sogged out there, and I went to go up myself.

I got the bug.

I said, I'm going to get one.

I told one of the fellows I went to get one.

And so I drove up there by myself and went up down on the ridge, got a little soaking wet, but I kept trucking through there, saw a lot of buck rubs and stuff.

And I kept walking through looking pretty good.

I saw some tails.

I come up on top there and saw three tails and saw mulleys, no buck.

So as I walked 10 feet further, there he was, standing there with the horns, got a little bumped up there, put up the scope, clogged up, can't see, all fogged up.

Cleaned it out pretty good.

Put it back up on him.

He saw me.

Put it on him, squeeze the trigger once.

He went down.

That felt good.

Three and three, six.

HUNTER: 145, 44.5.

OK. How much it weigh?

MAN: Did you say that was mine?

REPORTER: Today, the opening of deer hunting season in Pennsylvania finds a television film crew in the Allegheny Mountain network area to produce a nationally distributed program.

We hope it is fairer than the one broadcast four or five years ago, which portrayed hunters as evil killers.

After the new program is aired, we'll probably see more criticism of hunters because hunting involves the killing of innocent wild animals.

But the prime thing that is ignored by these do-gooders is the fact that without the systematic control of deer herds, the number of deer in our state would soon increase to such a degree that widespread starvation would result.

Don't condemn the hunter for what he's doing.

It's a very necessary thing.

If one of the television crew members approaches you this week, we hope you'll point out-- CARRY SIMPSON: People felt they were intimidated by what many people called a hatchet job by the network.

And I think that this is typical of many journalists or writers.

They enter the idea with a preconceived opinion, and then they look for little pieces of film or of photographs if it's a magazine story to attempt to fill in what they already have decided will be their conclusion.

And I think this is what they did before, and I hope that you're not doing that with this particular program.

HUNTER 1: You know the open spot down below where you were?

I went down there.

I saw three there.

HUNTER 2: I see your efforts stopped there.

Not one.

I was seeing deer all the time.

Ma'am, water, it's water everywhere.

I guess.

I got so fed up.

I just gave up trying to keep dry.

MAN: You're in trouble now.

Everybody likes it up here.

And we come up here.

We've been coming up here.

Oh, Nelly, I'd say some of us have been coming up here 10, 15 years.

And now it's growing bigger and bigger.

And each year, we get new people.

You get more wives interested.

They come along up.

We all know each other as friends, personal friends.

And this is a good thing.

We all get together.

We all have a good time.

We enjoy it.

And I think mostly this is the reason why we come up here.

WOMAN: The camera man.

He's looking.

I wonder how you got your buck in there.

Well, I just sat there and he walked up to me and I shot him.

And the damn thing.

It wasn't romantic.

It wasn't exciting.

It's a damn, cannon.

I just shot the deer.

I mean, I didn't chase him for 3 miles or stalk him or anything like that.

He shot him.

He shot the damn deer.

It looked like he was kicking it for a field goal.

It flew 20 feet when he shot it.

Yep, he landed right beside the tree where the bullet went in.

Come on.

God damn.

[chuckles] It was just anticlimactic.

Why don't you just tell the truth?

It was lucky.

I heard about it.

The bullet nicked the tree, it ricocheted off the tree and hit the deer.

I banged-- REPORTER (ON RADIO): Elsewhere, Coudersport to Emporium, police report, all is quiet.

And the traffic, an accident scene for the past 24 hour period.

Cain Bay State police report, the season's first incident of deer-napping.

According to authorities, unknown persons removed a five-point and a six-point buck from a rack at a hunting camp located in Hamlin Township.

The incident occurring sometime between 1:30 and 3:15 AM yesterday.

Police listed the victim as-- This year was the worst that I've seen it, and I've hunted for about 27 years.

The thing that's happened, normally you get about 60% buck kill the first day.

And this cannot happen when you have weather conditions like this.

The hunters go out, they get wet, they retreat.

Some have gone to dryers.

Some have dried their clothes in rooms and what have you.

And for this reason, I think that probably, the hunting will be good the rest of the week.

Some of our men have gone home.

A lot of the hunters in the area have gone home.

But by Wednesday-- any year, the hunters go back home.

We have a lot of hunters that come up here every year.

A lot of people that come in and really appreciate the county.

They really enjoy it.

And if they get a deer or not, or if they catch trout or whatever they come for, they're not disappointed if they do not.

They came to get away.

And that's what it was all about.

It's a ritual of manhood.

My father took me hunting, and I will take my child hunting, be it boy or girl.

There's a lot to be learned from that.

And I think there's a whole mystique that's wrapped around that.

People travel many miles, spend lots of time planning their one yearly vacation to come to the Northwoods and bag a buck.

And that's pretty healthy if it's done with a sense of sportsmanship and an understanding that life goes on.

[country music] (SINGING) Whitetail deer by thousands in the meadow Counts by the hundreds along the way I saw it all from on top of Old Baldy In Potter County, Pennsylvania, USA REPORTER (ON RADIO): Anti-American sentiment in the Middle East has sent the US dollar lower on the world money market.

NARRATOR: The second week of buck season.

Potter County's population, which ballooned to 50,000 last week, is back near its normal 18,000.

And for some, the season has really just begun.

REPORTER (ON RADIO): Snow is forecast for parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania as the Great Lakes area residents dig out from under up to 2 feet of snow.

Buffalo got 2 feet of snow during the-- [music playing] Oh oh oh time to share minds NARRATOR: Well, good morning.

It's getting closer to Christmas.

And this half hour of Polka Show is sponsored by the ABC Motel and Rest.

REPORTER (ON RADIO): Authorities from the NBC Television Network in New York City have informed us that the prime time program that's supposed to been aired last night featuring Potter County was preempted due to the Iranian situation.

JUDE RICHARDSON: Hunting's beautiful.

You know, I've been doing it since I was in grade school.

I'd rather hunt than do anything.

I think my whole life is tied in around my hobby.

[chuckles] Some people probably couldn't hack living out here in a remote area.

They come up to me and say well, you got it made.

But at the end of the two weeks, they're done.

They want to go back where the activity is.

To me, the activity's right here.

This morning I was still hunting.

I mean, that's just walk and watch, walk and watch.

It's not my skill that gets a deer, it's my patience.

And maybe I stumbled into a deer or the deer stumbles into me.

Eventually, that's what happens.

You have five weeks of low season.

And then you have two weeks of gun season.

And then you got the-- after that, you have doe season.

And if you still haven't got a deer, you have the winter season, which is probably two weeks this year.

And I think you'd have to be a fool not to be able to get a deer.

[chuckles] It's a place I want to live.

There's probably more game here than I've ever seen anywhere.

And I've been in Indiana and the State of Washington and of course, the Adirondacks, which is almost like a desert.

Down here, we're just not that developed yet.

And I think Potter County is wonderful.

[country music] (SINGING) I think that after God had built the world And stop to rest on the seventh day The place he stopped to rest, oh, the one He loved the best was Potter County, Pennsylvania, USA Potter County, Pennsylvania, USA Potter County God's country Leisure time doesn't just happen, we plan our leisure time.

But others prepare the facilities and opportunities that we enjoy.

My leisure time fun is often a result of somebody else's work, which is a fair exchange since I'm usually paying.

Here's a look at more work and fun as another rural tradition, the church festival kicks into gear.

[trolley clattering] [background chatter] [bell tolling] WOMAN: Oh, good.

[background chatter] Well, we fit it in as a moneymaking activity and a social activity to bring the people together.

The people think we're only out to make the money.

No, we like the buck.

Oh yeah, it's a means of making the dollar bill, but the-- I think one of the finer parts of the festival besides the money is that they gather together, they work together, and they gripe together, and complain together, yeah.

Sometimes they get peeved at me and I'm pushing them too hard.

Well, I try to be nice about it, but, you know, fuses get short, so we do the best we can.

So that all fits into a program.

Well, I would say, this is our biggest moneymaking activity.

It's the one here, the festival deal itself.

I told you, we'll average anywhere from $20,000 to $30,000.

And the most popular booth, of course, is right here.

The refreshments there.

They'll pull in about $5,000.

MAN: Oh.

Is it in the bottle?

Isn't it in the bottle?

I'm not sure.

This is our number 13 here.

The 13th one we've had here.

We seem to be breezing along pretty well.

Now, don't think there aren't any problems.

We have problems.

We have problems.

A simple, tiny thing like, they call me in there.

Any problems, I'm the-- the buck stops here.

We ran out of wieners.

I said, we haven't even started.

Somebody goofed up, see.

So we got to go scouting around for cases of wieners.

LM KUZIORA: At evenings, if the weather's halfway decent, you will be able to walk through here.

It's early evening and evening when we get the crowd.

They say it's supposed to rain a little bit.

Well, you can't have it all, can you?

[background chatter] MAN 1: I'm glad to see somebody's down from up there because you never know.

MAN 2: Yeah, yeah.

We just happen to see it in the paper at the time.

MAN 1: Yeah.

MAN 2: The last time I came, I won $250.

MAN 1: Ooh, that's not bad.

[chuckles] MAN 2: Not bad.

[bingo machine whirring] ANNOUNCER: B 1.

B 1.

O 64.

There they go.

64.

Down here.

13, 18, 55, 64.

ANNOUNCER: Absolutely.

Bingo.

Are there any more?

$1.25 each.

B 7, B and 7.

G 59, G 59.

G 49.

Bingo!

ANNOUNCER: I hear a bingo.

One good thing, though.

Is there anymore?

All right, one winner of $100.

Bill?

That's good for two.

Jack?

5, and 27, 55, and 69.

ANNOUNCER: That's good for three.

York?

6, 21, 48, and 72.

ANNOUNCER: That's good for four.

Barton?

29 and 72.

ANNOUNCER: That's good for five.

Is there any more?

Georgie?

That's good for seven.

is there any more?

That's good for eight.

Joe?

9, 21, 49, and 70.

ANNOUNCER: That's good for nine.

Is there any more?

Everybody hold your hands up till you're all paid off.

Now the winners will receive $40.

OK.

I said, I'm not going to leave till I get something to eat.

We should have eat at home, you know.

I thought it was going to open up at 1 o'clock.

I didn't know that then.

WOMAN 1: It's been a lot of he's fixing everything here in the morning.

This year, they didn't even come till now.

WOMAN 2: But I'm telling you, next time I decide to eat, I'm going to eat at home before I come over here.

WOMAN 1: I really didn't know when they were going to open.

But I thought they did that last year.

WOMAN 2: I think-- it seems to me, our sister was down there in that lower booth and I came over there and I talked to her that morning and it was open in the morning.

WOMAN 1: There's more-- WOMAN 2: Do you remember?

Pizzas are good, but I want a hot sausage sandwich.

Hot sausage sandwich.

SHOP OWNER: No, it's not, but it's ready.

Half our stuff isn't here yet.

Doesn't open until 3:00.

What time is it?

WOMAN 2: It's almost 3:00.

But our rolls aren't here yet.

Now they must be getting the pierogies ready, yeah.

Yeah, do you want to come back and help me?

WOMAN: [chuckles] I can take all the help we can get.

I guess that didn't go over too big, did it?

They just want to eat.

WOMAN 1: Oh, my god.

Look at that.

22.

[chuckles] MAN: You're going to win some of that.

WOMAN 1: Come on, baby.

22.

[spinning wheel whirring] MAN: 785, 20, 29, 30 WOMAN 1: I like the Madonna.

Oh, look at that big Teddy bear that somebody's going to pass me.

[chuckles] Oh well.

Maybe I should I stop a while now.

Yeah.

Don't be aggressive.

That's what they all say.

One more.

Yeah.

You don't know me when I get involved in this game.

I don't know when to stop.

Come on, honey.

Get down on there.

Come on, baby.

19.

We're right there.

Oh.

Oh, come on.

Come on.

Hey.

WOMAN 4: Yep.

Oh, you got it, finally.

WOMAN 4: Hallelujah.

I'm a bum.

You like the Madonna?

WOMAN 4: Yeah, for sure.

Woo!

Give me stuff!

[background chatter] Hallelujah, I'm a bum!

WOMAN 5: The wood's crossed on the other one.

Here, I'll take this one.

That right there.

See?

Now don't say I ain't good.

WOMAN: [chuckles] Yeah, I think the proof of the pudding is we've been successful.

We have a nice looking plan here.

We built, though-- you see, we build it, yeah.

Yeah.

We build it.

We started out with this building to make money.

Right here.

To make money.

And we put that up.

That thing ran us-- what was it?

$400,000.

That's paid for.

And all the equipment inside is paid for.

We put up the church next.

We have about, I'd say, $350,000 there.

And then the rectory.

I put out a ballast.

$250,000, $280,000 in there.

We had a lot of money invested here.

That building across the street there belongs to us.

It's a home for the elderly.

I fought for that and we got it, and it's been very successful.

So that building over there runs $800,000.

I have priests who'd come in, they like the plan.

They like the building.

It's wonderful.

But when they come to price it, they don't get it for the price I put it in for, you see.

See, now that'll-- no, I put $400,000 in there without equipment.

You'll probably double that today.

[background chatter] But whatever we do, we try to do it right.

And let's say, it takes a lot of work.

It takes a lot of work.

And like I mentioned to you, I believe yesterday, you won't find junk here.

Everything you see is very fine.

Very fine.

We run that bingo.

I think they took in over something like $4,500 in the bingo over there.

Yeah, nice stuff.

Good stuff.

No junk.

We don't get junk.

And the people know that.

ANNOUNCER: Everybody ready?

Watch your cards.

Everything counts.

Everything counts when they go inside corners, outside corners, big diamond, small diamond.

Calling all three bingoes.

First number, N 32.

N 32.

[figuring clanks] G 57.

G 57.

B 11.

B 11.

N 36.

We have a bingo.

One winner.

Your choice from the top shelf.

O 63.

I've won $270 last night too.

ANNOUNCER: B 1.

I've done that last night.

Didn't get a damn thing.

Yeah, no.

sometime I think they're not true.

WOMAN 8: Did you play the big bingo?

Yeah.

WOMAN 8: And then they played the instant?

The last time was up in the park.

And they belong to the military or something.

We used to have picnics up there, you know.

And I played bingo, and I think I won a basket of fruit.

WOMAN 8: But how many did it take?

Like I said, sometimes I just wonder if there's anything in them.

Try your chances on the basket of grocery.

If you want your tickets, come on up.

I have here, 2, 4, 6 left.

They're a quarter strip.

Four for $1.

$1000?

No, $30.

Sure.

OK, I have this left, which is $50.

Very good.

We're now spinning the wheel for this basket of groceries.

[spinning wheel whirring] FEMALE HOST: Number 62.

Number 62 is the winning number.

Now grab some groceries.

WOMAN: The person from San Ramon?

FEMALE HOST: Yes, she's here somewhere.

She's probably playing bingo or something.

[music playing] He's broke, you know.

WOMAN: I have to do another one.

[glass clinks] WOMAN: There you go.

Just give me some.

Give me one of those chocolate ones.

[glass clinking] [glass clinking] Oh.

Yes, it's good.

Bless your heart.

What's your name, dear?

Virginia Boston.

Virginia Boston.

And what's your address?

RD1, Houtzdale.

OK.

There.

You said you was going to win.

I told you, the good Lord has to shine on me sometime.

And he was the one who sold it to me.

Yeah.

I'll buy all my tickets from you.

All right.

[chatter] WOMAN: Right here.

FEMALE ANNOUNCER: Oh my god, it's 105.

A whiskey?

They got a whiskey, too.

You'll be OK. A couple of minutes.

I'll take four off of you.

I'll be a good sport.

Yeah.

She's my good customer over here.

Thank you.

You're probably going to go, not one.

[chatter] Over here?

All right.

Yeah.

102.

The winning number of that basket of groceries is number 102.

Oh!

MAN 1: Hey, Chuck!

MAN 2: 102?

MAN 1: 102.

- Let's go!

That's the spirit!

[chuckles] Isn't that cute?

I'm glad.

I'm glad for you, honey.

Congratulations.

All you young people, we have a good dance inside.

Nice band.

WOMAN: What's up?

FEMALE ANNOUNCER: Why don't you grab him?

Take him up to dance?

Come on, you guys, let's go for the dance.

Hurry, everyone's in here.

She just got her third basket or groceries.

[laughs] FEMALE ANNOUNCER: OK, here.

You may go.

How about this?

She won eight at the 21 Club, so those-- She won a-- They told me, she has won eight baskets.

2,500 to go.

[chuckles] [rock music playing] (SINGING) You are born to the... Kingdom of God LM KUZIORA: Of course, we have to take care of the spiritual side of the people.

That's number one you know.

That's number one, to take care of the people and the children.

We have a program for them, for the people.

We have 600 families here.

600.

And of course, I run it by myself, which I don't like, but we don't have priests.

What I did originally, I put three churches together.

The church down the road here, 1, 2, 3 blocks called St. Lawrence.

That was Saint Lawrence.

It was originally the Irish church that began in 1877.

Then there was a church-- well, Polish church called St. Barbara That began in 1894.

That was Polish.

This was Slovak.

They had originated in 1896.

We put this together, the churches together, and we ended up with 600 families.

I put them all together, and that's how this all originated, because it was built, for definite reason, on ethnic grounds.

Polish people wanted their Polish speaking priests.

Slovak people wanted their Slovak speaking priests, the English, their English speaking priests, which was fine.

But the day came when everybody understood English.

You don't have to have someone speak in Polish.

Everybody knows English.

So we try to turn it all around.

And the majority of people accepted it.

Some didn't.

There are some few that didn't.

Here's someone for coffee.

WOMAN: How about salad?

You want to do coffee?

All right, you'll do the coffee then.

WOMAN: How about-- OK, yeah.

Right here.

No, the onion rings that I have.

No, keep them away.

We're going to do salads.

OK. Only one tray?

No, it's just that I thought she told me.

Yeah, well, she said-- I probably got a big bowl of salad.

Ooh.

It's supposed to rain today and tomorrow, so it will be a fizzle.

I'm not very optimistic.

That's the weather report.

So that means, we're down a drain.

[piano melody] WOMAN: Bingo?

You win?

MAN: Yeah, the bingo.

Yeah.

FEMALE ANNOUNCER: O 64.

O 64.

B 6.

I 20.

I 20 B 13.

PLAYER: Bingo!

FEMALE ANNOUNCER: I have another bingo.

WOMAN: It's done.

Oops, it's bingo time.

REPORTER (ON RADIO): Weather wise, showers and a chance of a shower here and a chance of a shower there.

Otherwise, cloudiness with the highs in the upper 70s today.

And we kick off this hour once again with another tribute to all the working people out there.

[music playing] Lord through the hand, through the handle of my hoe Let me make another set [chatter] MAN 1: I have to thank you for telling me that.

MAN 2: It's nice and handy.

MAN 1: And handy.

[music playing] [non-english singing] FEMALE ANNOUNCER: Tonight, I'm going to take us back out to the grocery.

Three numbers for a $0.25.

[spinning wheel whirring] [mellow music playing] MALE ANNOUNCER: Hey, watch your cards.

Here we go.

And your first number, B 1.

B 1.

[spinning wheel whirring] [spinning wheel whirring] WOMAN: A $1.

Ah, man.

[chatter] What?

[spinning wheel whirring] All nations and the new.

All nations and the new.

[spinning wheel whirring] Oh, I'll play that 3.

MAN: All right.

It's going to be heavy.

There.

MAN: Hey, a 5!

That's it.

[spinning wheel whirring] Put it down here.

I don't want get too much there.

4 and third.

Nobody home.

[spinning wheel whirring] [chatter] REPORTER (ON RADIO): Right here on at least for the next couple of days.

Some improvement is likely by Wednesday as rain tapers off, but mostly cloudy conditions will prevail.

A little bit of rain, so be careful as you're traveling.

Roadways are wet, so use some more caution, won't you?

Number 20 this week on the charts is Eddy raven.

Shine, shine, shine.

[music playing] 10, 44.

B, 2.

B, 2.

O, 72.

0, 22.

Come on up here.

Tickets for a basket of groceries.

Come on up here.

Tickets for a basket groceries sitting on this recorder.

[chatter] ANNOUNCER: Tickets over here for a basket of groceries.

Great numbers for a quarter.

What we do is drawing in the very few minutes.

We will go first prize for the car.

Second prize, the La-Z-Boy recliner.

The third prize, the Zenith VCR remote control.

The fourth prize will be the Panasonic compact microwave.

The fifth prize will be the Venus 19-inch remote control TV.

[chatter] OK, we're going to have the drawing.

We're going to shake it up a little bit first.

Roll that baby around.

ANNOUNCER: Everybody have their tickets in?

MAN: OK. Make sure you only get one ticket.

ANNOUNCER: Dig right down in the bottom there.

Go right down in.

Go right down in the bottom of the pile there.

MAN: And make sure it's mine.

First place for the 1987 Chevrolet Cavalier four door sedan, Peter Bungo, Madera.

So Pete is the proud owner of the new 1987 Chevrolet.

All right.

You write that down.

ANNOUNCER: Thank you for coming this evening.

Sorry if you didn't win the automobile.

Come again next year.

[chatter] WOMAN: See ya.

See you next year.

[chatter] LM KUZIORA: We had.

We were here.

We had-- luckily, it didn't rain during the barbecue.

But we had rain off and on, which didn't help us at all because of advanced planning.

See, we had the raffle plus the dinners, et cetera.

And we had the booths too.

So the amount taken in, I think we took in over $50,000.

It's tough to make a buck today, over $50,000.

But the amount we actually made, clear profit was $16,151.69, which I think is-- I think is very representative considering the fact that while the weather wasn't very conducive.

But the Lord's been good to us.

We've had good weather and bad weather through the years.

I'm going to take out.

LM KUZIORA: I think the one good side effect to it is the fact that it brings our people together.

You know, they gripe together and they work together and complain together, you know.

And that's a good thing.

It's a good thing.

In other words, they're not all strangers to each other, which is a reason for social affairs.

Yeah.

So we were very grateful, grateful to the people and the Good Lord that what he did for us.

We can't forget him, you know.

ANNOUNCER: Anybody else?

Joyce, the bottom shelf won prize.

LM KUZIORA: I'm coming to the point of retirement.

But the present time, I'm 72.

So I might go for three more years.

So possibly we might have another one, see.

If I'm still here, we'll-- we-- undoubtedly, we'll have one.

Undoubtedly, we'll have.

And kind of clean up the works and that might be it.

I don't know.

As I say, I'm coming to the end.

And what will happen after that, whoever succeeds me, what they're going to do, I don't know.

That's up to them.

I'll be out of the picture.

And a good time was had by all.

We hope.

Some notes on these leisure time documentaries.

Deer Season is still big business in God's country, even though Potter County is no longer the deer hunting capital of Pennsylvania.

In fact, the County isn't even in the top 10.

The deer and the hunting have moved to southwestern Pennsylvania.

But trout fishing and summer vacation activities have increased and business is good if not as good as the old timers claim it was.

At Christ the King Church, many changes.

Fr.

Kuziora died a year after our documentary was completed.

As he predicted, the parish festival has been cut back to only two days and with many fewer activities.

It's fun.

It's a good time, and it's a lot of work.

That's the story of leisure time in rural Pennsylvania, brought to you by the hardworking producers at Penn State Public Broadcasting.

I'm PJ O'Connell.

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