Sunday, September 28, 2008
"In 1875, a Massachusetts farmer, curious about the growing power of expanding apples, melons and squashes, harnessed a squash to a weight-lifting device which had a dial like a grocer's scale to indicate the pressure exerted by the expanding fruit. As the days passed, he kept piling on counterbalancing weight; he could hardly believe his eyes when he saw his vegetables quietly exerting a lifting force of 5 thousand pounds per square inch."
~Rutherford Platt, The Great American Forest
"My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow."
~Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
Welcome to our site. We are Jenny Sullivan and Jeremy Downey, soon to be wed. We hope to make of this a journal of sorts of our life together. For now, the site will function largely as an informational resource for our upcoming wedding.