This Sunday – June 28th – I’ll be driving a team of horses at the ever-popular Strawberry Festival at Cedar Circle Farm in Thetford, Vermont. The festival – and the rides – will go from 10-5. Come on down and visit. I’ll be the guy who seems far too happy to be working.
Cedar Circle Farm, in case you forgot, is operated by our good friends, Kate & Will. I’ve known Will for almost twenty years, dating back to the meeting we had with the United Farm Workers after the death of Cesar Chavez to brainstorm on ways to join the farmworker movement with the so-called consumer movement (oh-how-I-hate-that-consumer-word).
Needless to say, we hit it off instantly. He was radical and nuts and…well…you know the rest. Besides being an amazing farmer, Will’s never resisted the necessity to put his body/life/reputation at risk in the pursuit of protecting the myths of nonsensical living or being.
I shared a handcuffing experience with Will a couple of years ago when we found ourselves amongst the few Vermonters willing to demand that newly-elected Vermont Congressman Peter Welch follow through with his pre-election anti-war promises by – what?! – voting to stop the funding of the Iraq War. Will brought Grace Paley (R.I.P.) and her husband and partner in all-things-activism, Bob Nichols, to the “event.” Grace’s health was bad then but Bob jumped right in and took the cuffs with us after Welch refused to even meet with us about the issue.
I know, I know, I Love Vermont, Too!
Now shut up and sit down.
Last spring, we had Will & Kate over for dinner and in the midst of a fabulous conversation he rather flabbergastedly called out: “I’m still looking for one other radical farmer out there. Where are the people who understand the connection between justice and farming?”
That’s why I love him.
Come on over for a ride, my friends.
[If you want to learn more about the festival, go here and find the link – via PDF – to the Strawberry Festival. Last year, over a thousand people attended. Giddy-up.]
that would be june 28
That’s what it says. Time for an eye exam?
If this keeps up, David Budbill is going to do an epic poem about you called “God Bless The USA, The People Of Iraq, And Michael Colby For Making Yahweh’s Chainsaw Dance In The Holy Hills Of Peace, Diversity And Physician-Assisted Suicide”
Jesus. “Snarky Boy Is Just A Regular Homespun Guy”–next on Oprah.
Oh, and it said June 26 on the e-mail post I got. Good thing you didn’t post it that way on GMD.
Are you doing all this ‘nice’ shit to win a Daysie?
I’m all alone here, folks. It’s just me and Champ.