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title	:	Parsnips in the Snow : Talks With Midwestern Gardeners Bur Oak Original
author	:	Staw, Jane Anne.
publisher	:	University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0877452792
print isbn13	:	9780877452799
ebook isbn13	:	9781587292279
language	:	English
subject	Gardening, Gardening--Middle West.
publication date	:	1990
lcc	:	SB455.P367 1990eb
ddc	:	635/.0977
subject	:	Gardening, Gardening--Middle West.

Page iii Parsnips in the Snow Talks with Midwestern Gardeners Jane Anne Staw and Mary Swander University of Iowa Press Iowa City

Page iv University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright (c) 1990 by the University of Iowa All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Third printing, 1990 Design by Richard Hendel No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Parsnips in the snow: talks with Midwestern gardeners/Jane Anne Staw and Mary Swander.-1st ed. p. cm. - (A Bur oak original) ISBN 0-87745-269-5 (alk. paper), ISBN 0-87745-279-2 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Gardening. 2. Gardening-Middle West. I. Staw, Jane Anne. II. Swander, Mary. III. Series. SB455.P367 1990 89-20439 635' 0977-dc20 CIP

Page v For Paul Diehl, our teacher, who inspired us, to write together

Page vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Part One The Good Old Days Edith Cone, Pawpaws Everywhere 3 Joe Kantor, Truck Farming Back Then 19 Dixie Peterson, Piccalilli and Dog Days 37 Part Two Succession Bill Hatke, Succession 57 Marti Roynon, I Just Dug All the Harder 75 Floyd Brannon, Reunion 91 Part Three Beauty and Bounty Carl Klaus, Beauty and Bounty 107 Ann and Eric Weir, Chaos among the Cosmos? 125 Larry and Marian Fischer, A Loaf of Bread and a Flower 143 Part Four The Blessing of the Fields Father James Henderson, The Blessing of the Fields 159 Carl Birkelbach, Gardening and the God Within 173 Grant Cushinberry, God's Little Half Acre 189

Page ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank the following friends for their hospitality and enthusiasm in ferreting out the gardeners we interviewed for this book: Caroline Ash, Thomas Fox Averill, Robin Behn, Carl Birkelbach, Nancy Eberhardt, Jeffrey Goudie, Robert Grunst, Duane Hutchinson, Mary McMahon Klotzbach, William Klotzbach, Eva Leo, Monica Leo, Charles Maland, Dorothy Maland, Nancy Klein Maland, Bonnie O'Connell, George O'Connell, Yolanda Ortega, Dixie Peterson, Susan P. Smith, and Marcia Southwick. Thanks, too, to Sheryl Kamps and Carol Palmquist for their secretarial support and to Linda Verrips for her transcriptions, humorous quips, and genius for deciphering our garbled comments on the tapes. We thank Paul Diehl, Ellen Greenblatt, Elizabeth Pelzner, Randall Vandermey, and Sharon Warner for their editorial comments and encouragement. We especially thank Susan Sobel-Feldman for her criticism and feedback. For permission to reprint, we thank the Northern Review, where "The Blessing of the Fields" first appeared. For their financial assistance, we thank the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, and Iowa State University. Also, thanks to Jonah Staw for asking good questions, and special thanks to Barry Staw for sharing our vision from the very beginning.

Page x Sarge, tell them about the parsnips, the parsnips. Tell them about the parsnips. Well, parsnips. You can plant them in the spring-we planted some this spring-and they stay in the ground all winter. Just let the frost come. Then you dig them out the next spring. That way they're tender. Starch turns to sugar within the parsnips, you know

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