Word: hughson
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...country's commercial beekeepers. But this year, some worry that relationship is starting to sour. Driven by surging global demand, California's almond growers have doubled acreage since 1981, forcing them to lean heavily on imported bees from as far away as Vermont. Drive along the unlined roads around Hughson, and it's easy to find 10 different almond farmers renting hives from 10 different states. Orin Johnson, whose family has been keeping bees around Hughson since the 1950s, remembers when beekeepers earned less than $10 per hive in pollination fees to supplement their main business: honey. "Almonds were nothing...
...break even this year. Meanwhile, a drought led Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare a state of emergency on Feb. 27. Some almond farmers didn't even rent bees this year, figuring they wouldn't have enough water to irrigate their trees all summer. Ironically, it's been rainy around Hughson, cutting hours for active pollination short. This area's almond crop may suffer. Regardless, growers have few choices. "I'm in it for the long haul," says Jim Hudelson, a fifth-generation Hughson almond farmer. "When you become a tree farmer, you have to commit...
...trials were conducted in front of the provincial Supreme Court, on which Horsmanden was a justice. During the grand jury investigations, Mary Burton, a servant of the white tavern-keeper John Hughson, admitted under threat of imprisonment that her master was plotting to overthrow the government and make himself the first monarch of New York City. (Of course, New York would not have an absolutist ruler for another 152 years, when the city elected Rudolph Giuliani as mayor...
According to Burdon, Hughson planned to burn down Fort George, in what is now the heart of Manhattan’s downtown financial district. Burton testified that, according to Hughson’s scheme, “when as the white People came to extinguish it, [the conspirators] would kill and destroy them.” Burton named names...
Surprisingly, the defendants were allowed to cross-examine and call witnesses, but that did not affect the verdict. Even though the testimony of the prosecution’s witnesses was laughably unreliable, the alleged slave ringleaders were convicted and burned alive at the stake. The white mastermind, Hughson, was hanged. In terms of the fairness of the proceedings, the trials resembled less “Law and Order” than “Judge Judy...