Pride and Produce: The Origin, Evolution, and Survival of the Drowned Lands, the Hudson Valley Volume 1 - Haysom, Cheetah
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Haysom takes us on a fascinating journey into the mysterious Drowned Lands from the prehistoric era to today, from the IceAge and early Native Americans to the Age of Global Warming. With uncanny insight we are introduced to its organically-rich black dirt, its hydrology, its flora and fauna, its bountiful crops and the proud but dirt poor immigrants from eastern Europe who within two generations transformed this tangled wetland into one of America's most productive agricultural food sheds, feeding millions of metropolitan consumers while achieving prosperity and a good life for their families.…mehr

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Haysom takes us on a fascinating journey into the mysterious Drowned Lands from the prehistoric era to today, from the IceAge and early Native Americans to the Age of Global Warming. With uncanny insight we are introduced to its organically-rich black dirt, its hydrology, its flora and fauna, its bountiful crops and the proud but dirt poor immigrants from eastern Europe who within two generations transformed this tangled wetland into one of America's most productive agricultural food sheds, feeding millions of metropolitan consumers while achieving prosperity and a good life for their families.
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Cheetah has been writing all her working life. Born in South Africa, she graduated from the University of Natal, Durban, (BA Law) and started working as a reporter for a newspaper in Cape Town. She was posted to the U.S. in 1975 as a New York-based foreign correspondent for a large group of English-language South African newspapers that opposed the apartheid regime. She covered topics from films to finance, and subsequently wrote for magazines and newspapers around the world. She has lived in Pine Island, in the heart of the Black Dirt farming region of New York State, for 20 years, and written extensively on the region. Cheetah was recently presented with the following awards: -2019 National Newspaper AssociationBetter Newspaper Editorial Contest-2018 New York News Publishers Association, Distinguished Business Reporting Award of Excellence