. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. have located his bog within two miles of that village on Cranberry Run, where the Indians gathered the wild fruit years before white men knew them. "Here he had developed a good bog of 40 acres before his death when I was ten years old; and here my father, whose own father was another pioneer cranberry grower and who cleai'ed his own first bog at an early age, has continued their development till they are the larg- est cranbery bogs in the country. "True child of the pines and the cranberry bogs, from babyhood I have been
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. have located his bog within two miles of that village on Cranberry Run, where the Indians gathered the wild fruit years before white men knew them. "Here he had developed a good bog of 40 acres before his death when I was ten years old; and here my father, whose own father was another pioneer cranberry grower and who cleai'ed his own first bog at an early age, has continued their development till they are the larg- est cranbery bogs in the country. "True child of the pines and the cranberry bogs, from babyhood I have been closely associated with their less fortunate children.'' "Always feeling an interest in social work and uplift movements and reading all literature on such subjects as came in my way, I have never been associated with any organized work of this kind for it seemed that any effort of mine would be more directly applied and bring larger results in assisting my father see that hundreds of people working with us were fairly treated and extending a helping hand when needed to those whose circumstances we knew so ; This plain statement and the fact that it could be thus made tells as much about Elizabeth White as could be put in a volume. One more revealing incident may be added. For three memorable August days some ten years ago Dr. Edith Patch of the Maine Experiment Station, Elizabeth White, and I toured and tramped the blueberry barrens of Washington County, Maine. Some time during the sec- ond day, Miss White asked, "Just what is Maine particularly noted for?" to which I replied simply and sincerely, "Oh, nothing much, I guess, except for the all-fired-big lies that are told ; An elo- quent silence followed, broken at last by a barely audible gasp. One look at Miss White's face showed that I had said something as- tounding, if not actually wicked. To a son of Maine, the ability to tell tall stories artistically is no different in kind or i
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