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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] They Garden Best Who Garden Least
  • Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:38:10 -0700


Fascinating piece in MEN from 1996, a long one but good reading
They Garden Best Who Garden Least
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Nature-Community/1996-10-01/They-Garden-Best-
Who-Garden-Least.aspx

thanks to Pat Ruggiero

I just learned Barb knows of the Common Ground Country Fair in Maine, and
she's seen the Harry S. Truman Manure Pitching Contest they have every
year. Ah, yes. I'm culturally deprived ... ;-)

Why is it named in honor of President Truman? A society lady in Washington
once asked Mrs. Truman if she could get her husband to stop using the word
"manure" in polite society. Bess replied that it had taken her some time to
get him to use the word "manure."

paul tradingpost@lobo.net






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