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Dear Folks: May 18, 1987
Dear Folks,
The whole farm smells of lilacs. We inherited a lot of ancient lilacs that surrounded the barn when we moved in here. The sheep have pretty well killed off the ones in their yard, but outside it there are lilacs 20 feet tall. We’ve encouraged the growth of others around the place — there’s one by the back door, [...]
Dear Folks: April 20, 1987
Dear Folks,
It’s changed a lot around here since the last time I wrote. The transformation from March to April is hard to believe in this North Country. One month ago everything was white and frozen. Now the snow is gone, the grass is beginning to green up, and the forests have taken on the subtle pinky-brown color of the maple [...]
Dear Folks: March 22, 1987
Dear Folks,
It’s Sunday morning at the beginning of mud season. Most of Foundation Farm is still covered by about a foot of snow, but there are bare patches on the southern slopes, and they are solid mud, a portent of things to come. The snow has been going off very gradually. That’s good, because with all the snow we had, [...]
Dear Folks: February 12, 1987
Dear Folks,
Tomorrow I leave for a month in Vienna. I’ll be working there at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), which many of you know about because Dennis and I work there often. It’s an East-West institute, co-founded by the Americans and the Russians, and despite the Reagan administration’s best efforts to kill it off, it still is [...]
Dear Folks: January 18, 1987
Dear Folks,
At the beginning of this new year, I should re-introduce Foundation Farm and the characters who live here, for the benefit of the many new subscribers to the Dana Meadows News Service, and for the amusement of the original subscribers, some of whom know us very well, many of whom have lived here or visited at one time or [...]
