Playing the stalk market

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Corn is considered as an old story in the Connecticut and Deerfield River valleys of western Massachusetts. From start to finish, a corn crop means seven months of labor for Frank Ciesluk and his son Chuck for whom today corn is as much a summer food icon as lobster and ice cream.

Author: Nussbaum, David
Publisher: Yankee Publishing, Inc.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 2003
Connecticut, Corn, Corn Farming, Usage, Varieties

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Strange allure

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Surf fishing, according to some on Martha's Vineyard is akin to a religion. You need love and faith for this surf fishing which peaks from May through November and where surf casters flog 125 miles of shoreline and catch stripers of 50 pounds and more.

Author: Stringfellow, Barry
Publisher: Yankee Publishing, Inc.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 2003
Public affairs, Religious aspects, Martha's Vineyard, Surf fishing

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Captain Brenda Walker

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Brenda Walker, left a cushy bank job to be a cook on a Maine schooner. Brenda now in 2004 is the only woman who owns and captains her own schooner, the Isaac H.Evans, along the coast of Maine, her experiences on the job are also mentioned.

Author: Bodnarchuk, Kari L.
Publisher: Yankee Publishing, Inc.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 2003
Appreciation, Entrees (Cookery), Entrees (Cooking), Works, Walker, Brenda

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