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“The people would have chased you out of the community.”
Stiff penalty for not planting a garden. Luckily, Updike’s grandmother planted one.
“I can see her working with that hoe now, she was stout, she wore a great big apron and gathered com in it, and she always wiped the perspiration from her face.”
As a young girl, Updike worked the garden with her grandmother. “We always grew white squash, you don’t see that anymore. We also grew pole beans.”
What are pole beans?
“Instead of growing in a bunch,
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