Comments on: The Plums are (nearly) ripe http://sites.middlebury.edu/middland/2010/08/16/the-plums-are-nearly-ripe/ Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:10:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Things That Happened, Things to Do—Week of August 16 - Middlebury Magazine http://sites.middlebury.edu/middland/2010/08/16/the-plums-are-nearly-ripe/comment-page-1/#comment-494 Things That Happened, Things to Do—Week of August 16 - Middlebury Magazine Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:01:20 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/middland/?p=1960#comment-494 [...] Did you know that the College has a plum tree on campus? We didn’t either. Buzz Up Digg Mixx Twitter RSS Email Print Current Delicious Diigo Facebook Fark Google LinkedIn Live MySpace Newsvine Propeller Reddit Slashdot Sphinn StumbleUpon Tip'd Yahoo! What's This? [...]

]]> By: Anne Harlan http://sites.middlebury.edu/middland/2010/08/16/the-plums-are-nearly-ripe/comment-page-1/#comment-493 Anne Harlan Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:19:10 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/middland/?p=1960#comment-493 Ha! You tease! Well, I’m glad there’s a secret treat out there for the hard-working members of the Landscaping Department :)

Some of my very best memories of childhood were hanging out in the plum tree at the back of my parents’ garden — reading in its branches, eating as many plums as I could. It must have been an old, old tree if it was big enough to hold a kid. I wonder if it’s still there.

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