![]() ![]() Now in Dee’s garden… follow her on Instagram for the latest and greatest, and don’t forget to check out her daily stories. Maybe they won’t find my pawpaw fruit either.ĭid I mention that I also got almost an inch of rain this past week and a half inch of rain last night, with more coming today? The kernels are a creamy white with flecks of purple on them.įortunately, the raccoons never found the sweet corn, which is great. So 20 ears is a big deal! This year’s chosen variety, ‘Wild Violet’-wonder why I picked that one?-produced smaller ears, but they are delicious. If you’ve grown sweet corn in a small patch, you know you don’t get a lot of corn from it. My little sweet corn patch has given me almost 20 ears of corn this year. I picked a little over three pounds of green beans Monday, and the row I planted later hasn’t even started forming pods yet. In my garden, I’ve been picking tomatoes, corn, squash, peppers, and finally, some green beans. We promised updates on our gardens, so here goes. Available now on Amazon just click here.Hello, listeners! This week’s episode is another one we recorded early… two weeks before publishing it. It also bring you the history of the Italian immigrants who brought them to New England. The New England Historical Society’s new book, 24 Historic Italian Christmas Cookie Recipes, tells you how to make those delicious treats. The Christmas holiday actually began in ancient Rome - and so did Italian cookies. Photos of Gladys Taber and Stillmeadow Farm Courtesy of Anne Colby. Lee, the author of this story, is a freelance writer and blogger whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, and AAA Tidewater Traveler Magazine. While there is no irrefutable evidence showing an absolute connection between Taber and the movie, we still have a classic movie to enjoy every Christmas and, of course, Taber’s many books. The similarity of content and style between these passages suggests the scriptwriter was familiar with Taber’s writing. As she types, the camera pans to her apartment window, offering a view of laundry drying, with the outlines of large apartment buildings in the background, hardly bucolic New England. A Scene From Christmas in ConnecticutĬolby also mentioned a scene in the movie showing Elizabeth Lane at work. Later, a nurse reads him an article by Lane. Indeed, in the movie as hero Jefferson Jones recuperates from his war wounds in the hospital, he looks longingly at a page from a magazine illustrating a recipe from Elizabeth Lane, reminding him of the dinners he so misses. ![]() He said reading her article was like getting a letter from home. And the screenwriters were New York-based and probably familiar with Ladies Home Journal and Taber’s very popular articles.Īnd then there is the similarity in the names of the real and fictional columns.Ĭolby said that among Taber’s papers was a lovely letter from a serviceman who had received Ladies Home Journal sent inside a “care package” of food, cigarettes and magazines. Her columns and later her books were like the HGTV of her day, said Colby. The Case for Gladys Taber and Christmas in ConnecticutĬolby offers evidence to support this. Elizabeth Lane’s “farmhouse” from Christmas in Connecticut. ![]()
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