Harvest of Hope
More than timber, brownstone, and even an 81 pound pumpkin, could hope be the most important natural resource of the Apostle Islands?
If boosterisms were legal tender, those attempting to farm the Apostle Islands in the late 1800’s would have been vegetable tycoons — “a mammoth pumpkin weighing 81 pounds” raved the Bayfield Press in 1877, a “four pound tomato” and “a snake cucumber four feet long.” “Our soil is rich, the islands easily accessible, and a never failing market near at hand.”
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