Monthly Archives: July 2010

Where to get your goat…

…and your heirloom tomatoes?  In Jenkintown, of course. Now Jenkintown, (Montgomery County, PA) hasn’t been home to a farm in a century, and when I moved here in 1984, a rather small Acme pretty much was it for food supplies. … Continue reading

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Yiddish in the Pampas

                   “We planted wheat and grew doctors.” (Argentine Jewish saying)    For a tourist, the Pampas present an endless flat grassland punctuated by small, nondescript towns and immense fenced estancias, many still owned by families that are a “who’s who” … Continue reading

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Welcome to the ends of the Earth

Welcome to the ends of the Earth…and to your own backyard.
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