From father to son: some lessons can be learned only in farm fields. .(Column)

Publication: Vegetarian Times

Publication Date: 01-JUL-03

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When I was growing up, farmers used to say that corn should be "knee high by the Fourth of July." That was before the wonders of modern agriculture made any such achievement seem meager indeed. But to those of us fortunate enough to be farmers' sons, the fact that corn comes up at all will always have something of the miraculous about it--something bound up in the cycles of life, death and resurrection.

It has now been 15 years since we buried my father on the slope of a hillside cemetery 5 miles from...

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