[NAFEX] I heard
paul simon
paul.simon at tcs.wap.org
Wed Nov 13 12:11:32 EST 2002
Gordon wrote;
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>While still in bed listening to the radio this morning: I heard
>mention of ? acres of antique varity of apples being planted down
>south some civil war site or something. They supposedly rare and
>antique apples were purchased in Michigan. I can think of only 2
>places that they might have come from. Anyone have a definite answer?
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Gordon;
This note was in the Washington Post yesterday. Antietam is south
of Hagerstown, MD, (not in the South in my viewpoint). I was half
thinking of throwing a shovel and wheelborrow in the back of my PU
and driving the 70 miles over, but then have too many unfinished jobs
hanging on coathooks here.
Paul S.
Apples Ahead for Antietam
The landmarks at Antietam National Battlefield already include one
agricultural feature, the cornfield. Soon there will be another: the
apple orchard.
Rangers and volunteers plan to plant 350 apple trees this fall to
help restore the Piper farm, one of the homesteads on the property,
to the way it looked on the eve of the Civil War's bloodiest one-day
battle.
A nursery in Michigan is supplying eight apple varieties -- Baldwin,
English Russet, Fornwalder, Gilpin, Jefferis, Maidenblush, McLellan
and Northern Spy -- for the project, said Joe Calzarette, Antietam's
natural resources manager.
He said the National Park Service needs volunteers to help plant and
tend the trees on seven acres of the 3,255-acre park.
The original, 17-acre Piper orchard was occupied by Confederate
troops Sept. 17, 1862, when Union and Confederate forces clashed
along Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg in a battle that left more than
23,000 dead, wounded or missing.
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