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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

'Just read it; thanks.  'sounds like a different more solemn version of 
Johnny Appleseed; which , incidentally, I have never read as an adult.  
Perhaps, tomorrow .............bobford

http://www.vidyaonline.org/arvindgupta/plantedtrees.pdf


--- On Tue, 10/14/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] The Man Who Created Paradise
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 8:44 PM
> On Oct 14, 2008, at 5:45 PM, bob ford wrote:
> 
> > I just read this story by Gene Logsdon.  It was worthy
> of a foreward  
> > by Wendell Berry.  It is maybe the best Logsdon story
> I have read.   
> > The ending is not what you might expect when you read
> the  
> > foreward;...bobford
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> >
> http://organictobe.org/index.php/2008/09/02/the-man-who-created-paradise-by-gene-logsdon/
> 
> Thanks, Bob.
> 
> Reminds me of The Man Who Planted Trees, by Jean Giono.