To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [NAFEX] Astoria Characters: The Guy Who Really Gives a Fig
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:30:28 -0500
"Buon Giorno!"
Fresh from Sunday mass, Joe Vitale shouts this greeting to the sky.
His towering fig trees await. At this house, he has eight that form a
green canopy over his postage stamp of a front yard. Below them,
sheltering in their shade, are a half dozen cuttings he's rooting. In
the back, he has four fine trees.
At his other house, around the corner, he's blessed enough to have two.