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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
subjectGardening, Gardening--Middle West.
publication date:1990
lcc:SB455.P367 1990eb
ddc:635/.0977
subject:Gardening, Gardening--Middle West.
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Parsnips in the Snow Talks with Midwestern Gardeners Jane Anne Staw and - photo 2
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.
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Sarge, tell them about the parsnips, the parsnips. Tell them about the parsnips.
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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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