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On the Occurrence of a Spell of Arctic Weather in May, 1858 By
Paul Hamilton Hayne
We thought that Winter with his hungry pack
Of hounding Winds had closed his dreary chase,--
For virgin Spring, with arch, triumphant face,
Lightly descending, had strewed o'er his track
Gay flowers that hid the stormy season's wrack.
Vain thought! for, wheeling on his northward path,
And girt by all his hungry Blasts, in wrath
The shrill-voiced Huntsman hurries swiftly back,--
The frightened vernal Zephyrs shrink and die
Through the chilled forest,--the rare blooms expire,--
And Spring herself, too terror-stricken to fly,
Seized by the ravening Winds with fury dire,
Dies 'mid the scarlet flowers that round her lie,
Like waning flames of some rich funeral fire!
Plains Farms Need Trees. Trees prevent wind erosion, save moisture
... protect crops, contribute to human comfort and happiness / J.
Dusek. Reproduction Number: LC-USZC2-815 (color film copy slide)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (color film copy slide) cph
3b48715 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b48715
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Months
of April & May Featured Recipe
Apple and Lettuce Salad with Herbed Fromage
Blanc
Pears may be substituted for the apples!
1 medium head lettuce
2 cups chopped apples (or pears)
French baguette sliced 1/4-inch thick and toasted
Olive oil
Salt and pepper
1 red onion, sliced and seasoned with salt and pepper
3-4 oz. balsamic vinaigrette dressing
4 oz. fromage blanc
Brush sliced bread with olive oil and bake 8
minutes in a 375°F preheated oven.
Wash and separate lettuce leaves. Core and chop
apples or pears. Thinly slice onion, cut into half-rounds
and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Toss lettuce with vinaigrette
until leaves are coated. Add fruit and sliced onions, toss
again. Dish up onto salad plates. Spread fromage blanc onto
warm toasted bread. Arrange slices of toast on salad plates.
Sprinkle ground pepper on top of fromage blanc. (Recipe
adapted from Cowgirl Creamery) More fruit
salad recipes here.
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But first
Mom and Dad had to fill the pots with soil and plant the seeds.
The planting medium could have been a purchased mix or one they
put together themselves. If you have never tried to start seeds
indoors and want to try your hand at the dirty business of soil
mixtures and seed starting, see "How
to Succeed at Seed Starting" by Ronald C. Smith; "Seed
For The Garden" by Diane Relf, Extension Specialist, Environmental
Horticulture, Virginia Tech, and Alan McDaniel, Extension Specialist,
Environmental Horticulture, Virginia Tech.; and
"Starting
Plants From Seeds" by Ray R. Rothenberger.
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Urban ran sprinklers for frost protection on the two blocks of trees
near the ponds during the nights of April 19, 20 and 21 (2008).
It was one of those following mornings when a neighbor took this
photo of these ice encased apple trees. (Courtesy of Sally Hanson)
BABY SEED SONG
Little brown brother, oh! little brown brother,
Are you awake in the dark?
Here we lie cosily, close to each other:
Hark to the song of the lark -
"Waken!" the lark says, "waken and dress you;
Put on your green coats and gay,
Blue sky will shine on you, sunshine caress you -
Waken! 'tis morning - 'tis May!"
Little brown brother, oh! little brown brother,
What kind of flower will you be?
I'll be a poppy - all white, like my mother;
Do be a poppy like me.
What! you're a sun-flower?
How I shall miss you
When you're grown golden and high!
But I shall send all the bees up to kiss you;
Little brown brother, good-bye.
- Edith Nesbit [1858-1924]
From The Posy Ring A Book of Verse for Children
Edited by: Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith [EBook #22922]
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"From whence the seed
of that apple tree, or when the Indians cleared a field around it,
is in the dark unknown. It stood on a poor gravelly soil and verifies
the maxim that temperance promotes long life..." - History
of Desirable Apple Trees - The "Townsend" Apple, and Another.
History of Desirable apple trees, Samuel Preston,
Stocmport, Pa. May 30, 1828. Preston,, Samuel. CREATED/PUBLISHED
Stockport, 1828. NOTES At head of title: The following regarding
the famous apple tree of Richard Townsend ... appeared in the Cincinnati
Weekly gazettes in 1886.; On verso: Gift Sarah Mesrall Jan. 7, 1954
Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 153, Folder 4a. SUBJECTS
Broadsides--Pennsylvania--Stockport United States--Pennsylvania--Stockport.
MEDIUM 1 p.; 36.5 cm. CALL NUMBER Portfolio 153, Folder 4a PART
OF Broadsides, leaflets, and pamphlets from America and Europe DIGITAL
ID rbpe 1530040a http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.1530040a
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The Seed Shop by Muriel Stuart
Here, in a quiet and dusty room they lie,
Faded as crumbled stone or shifting sand,
Forlorn as ashes, shriveled, scentless, dry-
Meadows and gardens running through my hand.
Dead that shall quicken at the call of Spring,
Sleepers to stir beneath June's magic kiss,
Though birds pass over, unremembering,
And no bee suck here roses that were his.
In this brown husk a dale of hawthorn dreams,
A cedar in this narrow cell is thrust
That will drink deeply of a century's streams,
These lilies shall maker summer on my dust.
Here in their safe and simple house of death,
Sealed in their shells a million trees leap;
Here I can grow a garden with my breath,
And in my hand a forest lies asleep.
- From The Gardener's Nightcap
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For the most part you can trust the labels on garden center
and nursery plants but sometimes you get a surprise. We're big fans
of old-fashioned, open pollinated vegetables and happily share seed
saved from the year before. Traditionally, the seeds available through
garden catalogs and from the huge distributors that supply the twirly-racks
in hardware and grocery stores were the ones that made the big time,
had good public relations, rose to the top like cream in a milk
bottle.
But it's ever so fortunate there has been a
lot more diversity in the varieties of plants being grown throughout
the country than was even hinted at in the pages of the seed catalogs.
The credit goes to passionate gardeners
who have kept their own niche varieities growing for decades, good
grief, for multiple generations. Lucky for new gardeners today,
there has been a sudden interest in heirloom seeds so you don't
have to get those beloved everbearing strawberry starts from your
90 year old neighbor who has been tending them since she raised
her kids out on the Spring Creek farm. You have the opportunity
to grow an heirloom garden from seed that has finally made it to
the limelight of the newly trendy, alternative and organic garden
catalogs. Here's much more on the history of heirloom varieites
and how to choose a variety, where to find the seed, and how to
get started growing them. See The
Heirloom Vegetable Gardener's Assistant - www.halcyon.com/tmend/heirloom.htm
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 WOMAN:
Farmer, save civilization. (Trumpet.)
FIRST SPEAKER: Every head of cattle can
win a battle.
WOMAN: Farmer, save our flag. (Trumpet.)
FIRST SPEAKER: Plant more wheat.
SECOND SPEAKER: Plant more potatoes.
FIRST SPEAKER: More corn!
SECOND SPEAKER: More cotton!
FIRST SPEAKER: More food, more seed, more acres!
SECOND AND FIRST SPEAKER (together): More! More! More!
WOMAN: Farmer, save the world!
SCENE
FIVE (Milk Prices) CHARACTERS VOICE OF LIVING NEWSPAPER MIDDLEMAN
FARMER CONSUMER, A WOMAN VOICE OF LIVING NEWSPAPER (over LOUDSPEAKER):
Milk flows to market. (Light directly over the MIDDLEMAN seated
at table. FARMER and CONSUMER on truck, right and left Of MIDDLEMAN.
Scene is played on metronome count through entirety, a speech and
a beat, etc.) FARMER (holding up quart can of milk): How much do
I get? MIDDLEMAN: Three cents.* FARMER: Three cents? MIDDLEMAN:
Take it or leave it. *New York Herald Tribune, July 5, 1934. FARMER:
I'll take it. (Hands over milk and pockets coins.) WOMAN CONSUMER:
I want a quart of milk. MIDDLEMAN (who has been pouring milk from
can into bottle): Fifteen cents. WOMAN CONSUMER: Fifteen cents?
MIDDLEMAN: Take it or leave it. WOMAN CONSUMER: I'll take it. (MIDDLEMAN
holds out his hand, takes money, and slaps pocket.) Blackout
-TRIPLE-A
PLOWED UNDER A Living Newspaper Written by the editorial staff of
the Living Newspaper under the supervision of Arthur Arent Triple-A
Plowed Under was first produced by the Federal Theater Project at
the Biltmore Theater on March 14, 1936 script taken from Federal
Theater Plays ed. Pierre de Rohan (New York: Random House, 1938)
(Complete
Audio - Script
Text ) More
on the 1930's era including audio
files and a lesson plan for using the Federal Theater Project's
Triple A Plowed Under as a means to investigate the early
years of the Great Depression, particularly the American government's
failed attempt to rectify the Farm Crisis through the Agricultural
Adjustment Act."
POSTER TITLE: "Triple a plowed
under" REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (color film copy slide) cph
3f05543 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3f05543 (b&w film copy neg.)
cph 3b35420 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b35420
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The
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Archive Feature of the Month
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| TITLE: Mrs. Schrock takes
good care of her family. Yakima Valley, Washington (near
Wapato) CALL NUMBER: LC-USF34- 020303-E [P&P] REPRODUCTION
NUMBER: LC-USF34-020303-E (b&w film nitrate neg.) MEDIUM:
1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1939 Aug. CREATOR: Lange, Dorothea,
photographer. PART OF: Farm Security Administration
- Office of War Information Photograph Collection REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, DC 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (intermediary roll
film) fsa 8b34301 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b34301
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