Word: blossoms
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...restore your sense of wonder The English apple season is now in full swing, and the residents of Hereford are raising their glasses in tribute to the noble fruit. Herefordshire, 220 km west of London, has a 350-year-old tradition of cidermaking and is renowned for its blossom-filled orchards. Out of the 5 million hectoliters of cider produced in Britain each year, more than 65% comes from Herefordshire. "If you take the apple out of Herefordshire, you take away its economy, its character, its heart," says Margaret Thompson, director of the Hereford Cider Museum...
...Besides Walt and Skeezix, the cast of central characters includes Avery, the penny-pincher, Bill the affable mechanic, and Doc, "adviser to the alley both as to physical ailments and mechanical ills." Women, at least at first, have only minor roles, with two exceptions. Mrs. Blossom, an attractive young lady of mysterious background appears halfway through this first volume to create some tension with the determined bachelor Walt. These sorts of plot developments - another involves a phony oil futures huckster - give the strip a narrative drive that take it well beyond a mere joke a day about cars and kids...
...Orange Blossom Special” author Betsy Carter has built an astonishing career out of crafting good stories...
Carter’s impressive résumé proves one thing incontrovertibly: she knows how to tell a story. Carter’s recently published first novel, “The Orange Blossom Special,” continues the streak. It is the story of widow Tessie Lockhart and her 13-year-old daughter Dinah as they move from Carbondale, Illinois, to Gainesville, Florida, in the 1950s. The novel traces their interaction with the Florida town’s residents, particularly the prominent Landy family—with whom the Lockharts quickly become intertwined—and the historical...
...there any similarities between “The Orange Blossom Special” and “Nothing to Fall Back On?...