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CRAWLING WITH TROUBLE.(B&B Worm Farms, Meeker, Oklahoma)

The New Yorker

| June 30, 2003 | Singer, Mark | COPYRIGHT 2003 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

WELEETKA, OKLAHOMA --

One thing that attracted Gary Williams to worm farming was the prospect of watching his investment literally grow--as opposed to the stock market, where, he'd discovered, money had a way of disappearing before you had a chance to get friendly with it. In the fall of 2000, Williams retired from Southwestern Bell, where he'd put in thirty-one years as a telephone technician. He was fifty-three years old and eager to maximize the hours he spent fishing on a lake not far from his home, in Weleetka, in eastern Oklahoma. Offered the choice of collecting his pension in a lump sum or a monthly payout, he opted for the former, immediately parked the ...

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