Posts Tagged ‘WIlliam Hallicy’
October 1, 2019 International Coffee Day, Jens Jensen, LeRoy Abrams, John and Harvey Ruth, Cyrus Tracy, Daniel Boorstin, Eudora Welty, The Naturalist by Thom Conroy, Dark Times for Poinsettia, and the Restoration of the WIlliam Hallicy Nursery
Today is International Coffee Day. There is a legend that tells of coffee’s discovery: In Ethiopia, there was a goatherder who observed his goats didn’t want to go to sleep at night after eating berries from a certain tree. After he reported this to the Abbot of a local monastery, the Abbott gathered the berries…
Read MoreNavyman’s Nursery is Restored Through the Kindness of Fellow Nurserymen
“Unannounced, they appeared at the Hallicy home with $2,500 worth of small trees in 15 trucks. With tractor, plow, and spades, they cleared the 4-acre plot and set out the trees. In a few hours, the Hallicy Nursery was right smack back in business.” October 1, 1945 On this day, The Morning Call out of…
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