Lianhuadong – The Path to Kuling

1. Lianhuadong – The Path to Kuling “Each June, when the rice seedlings were transplanted from the dry beds to the flooded fields, I knew, the time had come for Kuling .” • Each June, when the rice seedlings were transplanted from the dry beds to the flooded fields, I knew, the time had come for Kuling Pearl S Buck, My Several Worlds Pearl S. Buck, from My Several Worlds Pearl Buck in Kuling Steve Harnsberger President, Kuling American School Assoc. Web: www.lushaninstitute.com Photos from KASA and Harnsberger Family For Shanghai American School Lushan Institute Summer 2013 March 15, 2013

2. Kuling was founded to save the children’s lives Pearl Buck’s family lost 4 children to disease, Kuling was a “Lifesaving Station” Pearl S. Buck, “My Several Worlds”

3. Kuling’s First baby “Uncle” Jim Harnsberger “The air up there is like the Alleghenies, and the brooks run clear”So said Pearl’s Dad, Mr. AbsalomnSydenstricker was one ofthe first 5 families to purchase a house lease

4. The ‘Thousand Steps’ or ‘Strong Man Steps ‘ where Sedan chairs hung over the edge

6. The Thousand Steps were appreciated differently by the Chinese, they carried a tough load

8. Quotes from ‘Lushan Memories’

9. Summer in Paradise – escape from ChinaWoods and Harnsberger Families – 308 “Oxford St”

11. Pearl S.Buck

12. ‘We must let the Chinese come in’

13. “Perhaps we white people ought never have built a separate places for ourselves. but we did it so we could keep our children. We lost so many children. “ Mother of Pearl S. Buck