1 4 SPIRIT OF JEFFERSON - Farmer's ADVOCATE - Thursday, May 18, 2000
I Must Ask
why She )herd College, the
being spent, the college is having
a campaign to raise funds from
and Italy in 1544, tomatoes were
only as a curiosit ill En-
that "it was a quiet
Sunday morning this
~own and t;h(' the! that
~A > ;! !ll:li(IV |r:H|ill~r ~tl'(.!i:t Oil all
~ :~,:i,w~'!-d route, The town had all
) i*(:~ ~,~! ~tiel'cll~tlltS.
<)~ Jt~m~ 11, t800, the town fi~-
! r~- di ec~ed that the market be
},~ii~ ~m King Street, south of Ger:
**~:~ ~ ~reet and that tile building
*311[1|)ll[~l{lbblJWll l I.ltllllJ lallJl ill y
was prominently featured in the
1973 preparation tbr the inclusion
of much of tile downtown area on
the National Register of Historic
Places~
This presentation is tile first of
several offerings about historic
structures to be offered during the
~'fit III (!5 IIt~W.
Ill Itl(! proofs-k; i}t' lllt)Vill~ the
t]cld (o ill t}/t! tiKhI ~:i{llatil)n, the
I'tlllltill~ 1,1-~t'k w;~;.' { H'II 011|. Ft~-
re.ring an ~re.t th.l l.cal li)lks
used for daily ex~rcim, And ac-
cording to inti)rmatio~ prv;~onted
al; |hi' Iillt(' o[' t}m di~,qCiOalll't! tit)Oil|,
stown Farm Market. 'Tis tile sea-
son to begin the journey toward
fresh fruited salads, sandwiches,
salsa, and other tasty concoctions.
Store-bought tomatoes provide
the visual image of the tomato. If
allowed to ripen in a sunny win-
dow after purchase, we can almost
imagine that summer treat. But
IIl~o~ lI ~,~llllI1 llllllIllly {{I.llblll
"Jim Comstock published "West
Virginia's 200 Years," a salute to
tim bicentennial, in newspaper
style in 1976. "rim following are
lilts and pieces whict~ he included
about the history of Mother's Day.
Under the 1907 headline,
"Graft.on Woman ()bserves 'Moth-
for a national observanCe~
I0 of that year, l'his vea~"~
lq'e:dden( Wilson t,rocl~[~
nalionally."
And under tlw 1{)44 t~I
' her[
"Nol)()dV s Mot '.I,
Everybody's- Blind
loss," we find that "
