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Apples: The Family Tree
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LIFE
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10 / 1986 |
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Elaine Brooks and Cornelia (Connie) Campbell
Elaine Brooks is a Boston-based free-lancer writer, one of
whose specialties is food. Cornelia (Connie) Campbell is a
chef, caterer, and food writer living in New Hampshire. Brooks
and Campbell are sisters. |
The sixteenth-century gentleman farmer and would-be author to whom Gerard referred would feel right at home with Jan and John McEwan, a twentieth-century lady and gentleman well-qualified to write their own "peculiar volume of Apples." They would very likely be discussing many of the same apples.
Jan and Jack McEwan operate Rose Farm in Lyndeborough, in historic Hillsboro County, New Hampshire. They and their family have been living on and developing the farm and its apple orchards for the past twelve years. As their orchards have grown, so have the number and variety of apples they produce, including many long-forgotten (at least in these United States) apple species that trace their roots to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and even back to John Gerard's time. The McEwans' own knowledge of the amazing fruit that nourishes their lives and livelihood has grown, too, along with that of the hundreds of families that visit Rose Farm every year at this time to pick their own apples and share a traditional family harvest that calls on centuries of custom, companionship, and plain good eating.
A visit to Rose Farm is like an excursion through time. Imagine what it's like at this time of year…apple harvest time…when the New England fall foliage paints the New Hampshire hills in golds and red, and the very thought of apples and cinnamon baking in your kitchen sends a favorite, familiar aroma through your house and into your imagination.
A twenty-minute drive west from Nashua, in New Hampshire's booming Golden Triangle, and you start to climb into the foothills of the Appalachians and back to the villages of eighteenth- and
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