My grandfather is currently packaging for travel a small bunch of rhubarb, since I've been inspired by the crops at the farmer's markets in New York to make strawberry rhubarb pie with sweet woodruff.
It turns out this plant is a descendant of that which grew at 14 Sheridan!
I have this feeling this sort of thing will happen a lot....
I LOVE rhubarb stories (love rhubarb, too, of course). A woman in a Shelburne (or maybe Colrain--anyway, near here) told me that she has rhubarb plants that descend from those her missionary ancestors brought back from China. A plant full of history for many.......
ReplyDeleteQuite an appropriate mascot for this project, the patron plant of historians everywhere.
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