What with so many of the local fruit trees either in or coming in to bloom right now, I took down a copy of a Johns Hopkins University Press backlist book, William Kerrigan’s Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard; A Cultural History, that was sent to me last year in a shipment of new review copies from that fine publishing house. In it was a note saying “Thought you might be interested in this as well.” Indeed, I remember thinking that it did seem interesting, but what with all the new books needing attention, I never quite got to it.
