Friends, Another case for the , "you can't make this &[EMAIL PROTECTED] up," file. Regards, Adam Honigman Hell's Kitchen, NYC 200 POUNDS OF PARSNIPS STOLEN
ANNALS OF IMPROBABLE RESEARCH - Parsnips have special appeal to philosophers, especially in Concord, Massachusetts, home to the transcendental philosophers Emerson and Thoreau. The April 6, 2006 issue of the Concord Journal reports a philosophically vexing parsnip theft: "On Friday, March 31, farmers from Gaining Ground, a nonprofit organic farming collective in town reported that approximately 200 pounds of parsnips had been dug up and hauled off. 'To take every one of them and without asking, we were more than a little heartbroken,' said Verena Wieloch, farm coordinator at Gaining Ground, which has a 9-acre farm on Virginia Road. 'If someone would just fess up it would be OK.' CBS - The quantity and the methodic way in which the carrot-like vegetables were dug up, led farmers to believe this was not the work of any creatures. "I wasn't even angry. I wasn't disappointed, just absolutely shocked," said Verena Wieloch of Gaining Ground. The nine acres of farmland are dotted with grasses and shoots and leaves. So whoever found and dug up the parsnips had to really know what they were looking for. Only tiny greens were visible through the soil. . . Concord police Lt. Paul Macone said no arrests had been made, but that the matter was still under investigation. AIR - Parsnips are especially beloved by philosophers because they became the weaponry in one of philosophy's mildly epic battles. This was a two-parter, waged in print: "Linguistical Butter and Philosophical Parsnips," N.L. Wilson, Journal of Philosophy, vol. 64, no. 2, Feb. 2, 1967, pp. 55-67. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-362X(19670202)64%3A2%3C55%3ALBAP P%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K "Unpalatable Recipes for Buttering Parsnips," Jerrold J. Katz, Journal of Philosophy, vol. 65, no. 2, Jan. 25, 1968, pp. 29-45. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-362X(19680125)65%3A2%3C29%3AURFB P%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T http://improbable.com/2006/04/06/on-parsnips/ ______________________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden
