Dear Folks: April 26, 1998
Dear Folks, Such a difference a month makes in New England in April! Especially this April, which has been as warm and sunny and sweet as any I can remember. Because of the lovely weather, we’re two...
View ArticleDear Folks: August 25, 1998
Dear Folks, Well, I guess I’ll start with the sad news and end with the happy news, because that’s the order in which they happened. If you don’t like sad news, skip a page or so. The process by which...
View ArticleDear Folks: January 23, 1999
January 23, 1999 Dear Folks, Have you ever noticed that entropy travels in waves? Things don’t fall apart in a steady or random pattern; rather when one thing breaks down, somehow the disorder is...
View ArticleDear Folks: March 28, 1999
Dear Folks, Foundation Farm has just invented a cartoon strip, the first installment of which you will find in this newsletter. It started on the “white board” in our kitchen, the place where we write...
View ArticleDear Folks: April 25, 1999
Dear Folks, Maybe we won’t need to put a “for sale” sign on Foundation Farm. Maybe it will sell itself. As soon as I started talking about putting it on the market, I got three expressions of interest,...
View ArticleDear Folks: May 23, 1999
Dear Folks, Twenty-seven years ago today Dennis and I moved to Foundation Farm. Now it is for sale. And I am soaking up my last May here. May! I swore long ago never to leave this farm in May, never to...
View ArticleDear Folks: November 21, 1999
Dear Folks, I wondered last month whether I’d be writing this month from my old house or my new one. Well, the answer is neither. I’m in my office at Dartmouth, because things are chaotic at home —...
View ArticleDear Folks: December 26, 1999
December 26, 1999 Dear Folks, “I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.” That sentence, which opens Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa, always makes me cry, because of its past tense. Had a...
View ArticleDear Folks: March 26, 2000
Dear Folks, Last month we were in the depths of winter, and Stephen drew his Spanish-speaking mouse riding on a snowmobile. Last weekend we had a blizzard. Today it’s sunny and sixty. There’s snow only...
View ArticleDear Folks: April 23, 2000
Hello, Dear Folks! It’s Easter. It’s the day after Earth Day. It’s solidly cloudy, as it has been for a week, and 40 degrees, and bone-penetrating damp. I spent yesterday out in the garden and got...
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