Local Color by Mimi Robinson

Author:Mimi Robinson [Mimi Robinson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2015-10-14T23:00:00+00:00

I have vivid memories of my grandmother’s farm in central Pennsylvania—summer days lush with green vegetation and humid summer heat. There, as a child, I spent time with my family in “Sharon’s Orchard,” which was planted during the Depression, first as an apple orchard and then later with peaches. Sitting on the front porch with my grandmother, mother, and aunts, I helped prepare applesauce and peach preserves for the winter months ahead. Elberta, Hale Haven, and Belle of Georgia peaches were some of my grandmother’s favorite varieties, along with Cortland and Jonathan apples.

Now, on cold and snowy nights, I can pull out a container of peach preserves and drift through memories of long, green summer days; images of ripe orange, red, pink, and yellow peaches; old farm baskets and crates to measure out a bushel, half a bushel, or a peck; and walks through the orchard’s craggy trees, heavy with ripe peaches, set against the green, brown, and tan Pennsylvania land.

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