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...Apple Farm smells of wood smoke, manure and freshly-pressed apples. Families and the occasional college student traipse from farm to orchard clutching eight-foot apple pickers...
There are still plenty of Red Delicious and Empire apples. Both have slightly mushy meat, versus the MacIntosh's crispness. Juice bursts from all the freshly-picked apples when teeth break through the skin. The juice seems to disappear the farther the apples go from the orchard...
...father taught her the nature lore, pointing out signs to the youngest of his seven children on the family farm where Lane still lives. Now Lane, 78 and frail with cancer, is passing on the knowledge to her daughter. This fall, while Lane monitored the foliage on Crab Orchard and Renegade mountains from her living-room window, Melinda Lane Hedgecoth ventured into the woods for her, reporting on how thick the fogs were, counting spider webs and spying on the hornets. She also wrote for her mother the annual fall column that Lane has written for the Crossville Chronicle...
...ORCHARD PARK, N.Y.--Buffalo Bills star defensive end Bruce Smith has been fined $7,500 by the NFL for a hit on Peyton Manning in last Sunday's game at Indianapolis...
Mendes, a compact, tousle-haired man with a boyish lack of pretension, graduated from Cambridge and had a pair of shows on the West End (London Assurance and The Cherry Orchard) by the time he was 23. He later spent five years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, developing a craft free of theatrical folderol. "You learned how to do Shakespeare with two tables and four chairs," he says. "Theater is not about illustrating, not about decorating. It's about building images from the inside out. That's frightening for actors. They can't blend into the scenery...