Eric Claypoole was up on the ladder again the other day, painting yet another barn with those unmistakable charms of Pennsylvania Dutch country: Hex signs.The Lenhartsville craftsman was finishing the fourth of four signs evenly spaced across the red planks of the barn on the Kratzer Farm in Lower Macungie Township, a 90-acre bulwark against suburban sprawl that will someday be the centerpiece of the municipal park system.
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