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...pleasant inconvenience for Dr. Parran. The year Governor Roosevelt called him there he, a widower with four small sons, remarried, and took a big white farmhouse in the hills at Castleton, N. Y.. overlooking the Hudson, ten miles south of Albany. The grounds include a pear and apple orchard, the pruning of which he made one of his hobbies. Other diversions: hunting, riding, training red setters, splitting firewood, baking waffles to eat with Maryland scrapple. Sunday the whole family decorously went to mass in the Roman Catholic Church of the village. After mass the whole family often tramped...
...David Christian Crummey looked after profit-&-loss. Present head of the company is John David Crummey, David Christian's son, who at 57 has been a Methodist Sunday School teacher for 41 years and has a son studying for the Methodist ministry. Mr. Crummey lives on his pear orchard, near San Jose, is installing an employes' playground with swimming pool and dance floor...
...WINTER ORCHARD AND OTHER STORIES -Josephine Johnson-Simon & Schuster...
...Josephine Johnson's farm tales are no more than well-written, undergraduate, descriptive essays, but in the best of them the real torments of hard times and hunger seem to struggle to escape the strait jacket of her fluent and mannered prose. Among the 22 stories in Winter Orchard...
...much as they disturbed my sleep. I couldn't help be sorry for them. For once they were discontent with domesticity. The boundary of their world had suddenly grown larger than the barn lot, the grove, the garden and the orchard. Somewhere far to the south waited a wide, gray marshland, pale and misty under the warm southern moon-waited the winter haven for all the web-footed creatures...