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240 images of African-American families Ibid., 90-92.
241 by 1915 Plymouth County produced Robert Demanche, “The Early Cultivators,” in Cranberry Harvest, 29.
241 Chicken Pie for Thanksgiving Mary Johnson Lincoln, Mrs. Lincoln’s Boston Cook Book (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884), 268.
242 over 90 percent of the crop Hilary Sandler, personal communication, Nov. 17, 2009.
243 canned sauce Trehane, Blueberries, Cranberries and Other Vacciniums, 71.
243 in 2002 the Wisconsin growers National Agricultural Statistics Service, “Cranberry Yield, Acreage, and Production by State, 2000-2002,” online at www.nass.usda.gov/nj/frtsum02cran.pdf.
244 “the economic salvation” Lowrance, “From Swamps to Yards,” 16.
244 one-sixty-fourth ownership shares Eck, The American Cranberry, 7.
247 hovered around fifteen Ibid., 36.
247 Peg Leg John Trehane, Blueberries, Cranberries and Other Vacciniums, 32.
247 Before 1983 Hilary Sandler, “Challenges in Integrated Pest Management for Massachusetts Cranberry Production: A Historical Perspective to Inform the Future,” in Crop Protection Research Advances, Earl N. Burton and Peter V. Williams, eds. (Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publications, 2008), 21-55.
248 suited for septic systems Cornelia Dean, “A Tradition at Risk in the Northeastern Bogs,” New York Times, Nov. 23, 2004.
249 After Thanksgiving Dinner Wilcox, Buckeye Cookery, 301-2.
250 “by sucking the air” Mark Twain, “Hunting the Deceitful Turkey,” in Collected Tales, 1891-1910, 805-7.
8. TWILIGHT: MAPLE SYRUP
252 “To have to give up your home” SLC to David Gray, Mar. 28, 1875, Hartford, CT, in Mark Twain’s Letters, 1874-1875. Michael B. Frank and Harriet Elinor Smith, eds. Mark Twain Project Online (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007) www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL11401.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp#an1, accessed Jan. 12, 2010.
252 “the woods in their autumn dress” Twain, Autobiography, 16.
252 “the taste of maple sap” Ibid., 17.
253 most old-growth forests Keith Thomas, Man and the Natural World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983), 193.
253 “Here is good living” William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (New York: Hill and Wang, 1983), 25.
255 A Receipt to Make Maple Sugar Carter, The Frugal Housewife, 209.
256 “whole coloring matter” Helen Nearing and Scott Nearing, The Maple Sugar Book, (1950; White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2000), 62.
256 “the kind of pure maple-sugar that is white” Ibid., 191.
257 “I can’t feel very kindly or forgivingly” Twain, Autobiography, 94.
257 “Why is it that we rejoice” Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1922), 69.
257 “It is sad” Twain, Autobiography, 4.
257 “labor and sweat and struggle” Ibid., 250.
257 Only death, he wrote Ibid., 326.
257 “release from the captivity” Ibid., 295.
257 “What is it all for?” Ibid., 99.
258 “It is one of the mysteries of our nature” Ibid., 422.
258 Maple Sugar Frosting Farmer, The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, 438.
259 paddled it up the Connecticut River Jim Dina, Voyage of the Ant (Washington, CT: Birdstone Publishers, 1989).
260 called it maple water Nearing and Nearing, The Maple Sugar Book, 14.
260 the Iroquois leader Woksis Janet Eagleston and Rosemary Hasner, The Maple Syrup Book (Boston: Boston Mills Press, 2006), 12.
260 Ne-naw-bo-zhoo Ibid.
261 mixed with crushed corn Nearing and Nearing, The Maple Sugar Book, 33.
261 Native American method of burying Williams, Food in the United States, 108.
261 “There is a sumptuous variety” Mark Twain, “New England Weather,” in Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims, 40-41.
263 “the French make it” Nearing and Nearing, The Maple Sugar Book, 25.
263 described by a Kickapoo man Ibid., 23-24.
264 Aunt Top’s Nut Taffy Wilcox, Buckeye Cookery, 98.
264 “I comprehend & realize” SLC to David Gray, Mar. 28, 1875, Mark Twain Project Online.
264 “it seemed as if I had burst” Powers, Mark Twain, 564.
265 “She was my riches