News from Western MA

[Thomas]

GAD,

I grew up in Brooklyn, where we had a patch of land in the back that just barely grabbed some sun. Our next door neighbor was a fanatic gardener, and he used let me help him.

Until I moved onto 11 acres in the Finger Lakes, I had no idea that I even had a green thumb. But I've since found that my neighbor of so many years ago had planted more than vegetables in the ground--he planted a desire in a boy who didn't find it until he became a man (although my wife likely has an opinion on my adult status...)

I've been contemplating writing a book on that experience. One day I will.