They Doubted His Pine Trees Until Nineteen Eighty Eight Proved Him Right

of the pines with quiet wonder. “Did people laugh at you?”

Tom smiled faintly. “For six years.”

The boy looked worried. “What did you do?”

“Kept planting.”

The boy nodded as if that answer mattered.

The following spring, orders for seedlings through Clay’s Feed and Seed filled three pages. Farmers who once mocked “Whitaker’s Forest” now argued about spacing continue reading …