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Thursday, 8 May 2008

John Bunker, Pomologist

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The Atlantic has an article on pomologist John Bunker of Palermo.His vocation arrived in a bushel basket, when he was managing a food cooperative in the town of Belfast. A man named Ira Proctor walked in one day to ask if the co-op would sell some of his apples on consignment. Bunker had never seen their like: apples the shape of a perfect McIntosh (a variety widely planted in Maine only after a calamitous freeze killed more than a million trees...
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Sunday, 4 May 2008

Daggett Rock

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An article in Saturday's Sun Journal discussed Daggett Rock in Phillips:Boston University's Wroe Wolfe called Daggett Rock "one of the largest glacial-transported boulders on the earth" and figured it was part of the Saddleback Mountain range seven miles away.At 100 feet long, 55 feet wide and 31 visible feet tall, "it's supposedly the biggest boulder, I've been told, in the eastern United States," said Dennis Atkinson, president of the Phillips...
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