No, but I worked around a lot of them. Interestingly, we (the locals) never touched a turnip. There were migrant workers who came into town for the harvest that did all the work with the turnips. Peaper Brothers had a large building behind the greenhouses where the turnips were processed - washed, sized and bagged. It was a cold storage warehouse which had a full court basketball court (remember, this is Indiana.) When we were on break from working in the greenhouses we often went down to the "plant" and played basketball in a 40 degree gymnasium. This was especially nice in the summer when we were sterilizing the beds in the greenhouses, which involved the use of steam with the greenhouses closed up tight.
We would often play with the migrant kids after work in the evenings. This was back in the day when you could pretty much run amok well into the evening without the folks getting all worked up about your safety. Ahh, those were the days.... Dan On Aug 8, 2013, at 10:59 AM, Rich Thomas wrote: > Did you fall off a turnip truck? > > --R > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
