Tomatoes Free for the Asking

A Minnesota Boyhood

Biography & Memoir
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Author: Kent Otto Stever ISBN: 9780878396481
Publisher: North Star Press of St. Cloud Publication: May 1, 2015
Imprint: North Star Press of St. Cloud Language: English
Author: Kent Otto Stever
ISBN: 9780878396481
Publisher: North Star Press of St. Cloud
Publication: May 1, 2015
Imprint: North Star Press of St. Cloud
Language: English

"Tomatoes free for the asking" is a quaint term remembered from the 1800s, yet heard in the 1950s of Stever's youth. It was a simple expression written on a piece of cardboard set alongside a pile of tomatoes near someone's garden or on the front porch. It was an invitation to take as you wish, with an expectation of acknowledgement—a simple courtesy to honor the offer. These were little lessons of freedom and responsibility we learned to carry us into another time and an uncertain future.

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"Tomatoes free for the asking" is a quaint term remembered from the 1800s, yet heard in the 1950s of Stever's youth. It was a simple expression written on a piece of cardboard set alongside a pile of tomatoes near someone's garden or on the front porch. It was an invitation to take as you wish, with an expectation of acknowledgement—a simple courtesy to honor the offer. These were little lessons of freedom and responsibility we learned to carry us into another time and an uncertain future.

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