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[GWL]: victory gardens

Writers may want to expand on the Victory Garden research idea. Chances are 
good every community in the country has at least a few WWII-era VG pros 
who'd jump at the chance to talk about it. In January, I wrote a column 
about Victory Gardens after a colleague unearthed, at a yard sale, a VG's 
garden scrapbook from the 1940s. What a time capsule! That column generated 
more response than any other I've written (except the one on the 
ever-popular armadillo). People called, wrote and e-mailed, one from 3,000 
miles away, simply to share their VG experiences and to say thanks for 
making them think about those gardens again. Local media outlets should be 
very receptive to this kind of story.

Gerri Bauer, Daytona Beach News-Journal

P.S. On a much more somber note, I speculated in that column how I, born 10 
years after WWII ended, couldn't imagine anything that would unite 21st 
century Americans the way Pearl Harbor/WWII pulled together Americans in 
the 1940s. I wish I were still wondering.

P.P.S. That garden journal mentioned in the column came from Rochester, 
N.Y. If anybody on this list is from there, and wants to pursue the lead 
for a local story (maybe the gardener is still alive; if not, descendants 
may be interested in the story; family name is Thompson), contact me 
off-list, gerri.bauer@news-jrnl.com. 

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