Education For All

  Dear Friends, In August 1892, Enfield Shaker Eldress and Church Family schoolteacher Mary Ella Briggs described her school’s closing ceremony: “One speaker told the scholars they had the cosiest,…

Large Red Tomato

With 4 consecutive days of frost predicted, these tomatoes were harvested from the museum’s gardens last Friday.  They are an heirloom variety called Large Red, or sometimes Early Large Red.  This variety was known in 18th Century France, was eaten by George Washington, and grown for sauce by Thomas Jefferson.  Possibly the best known tomato variety in America in the first half of the 19th century, . . .

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