Principal Dan Patton and Califon students show off one of the Amish barn-board benches, which will be auctioned on Jan. 30 at 6 p.m. at Lower Valley Presbyterian Church.

Q: Why did Old Salem place such inappropriate benches along Main Street? They are of 20th-century utilitarian design and fabrication, more suited to a barn than the first thing visitors ...

She was intrigued and wanted a board for their Walton tobacco barn. Joan and her husband, Joe, liked the Arrowhead block which appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer in 1933. They chose fall colors.