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Leesburg, Ohio | Eugene was certainly one of most prominent of the 1970's "Young Tigers" as the university types called them in those days.
A neighbor an I went to one of the early "Pro Farmer" seminars in Chicago that Eugene spoke at. Would have been in about 1978 or 1979 during his big expansion period. He told about the month when he bought a farm a day. And about putting together farmer around his home place to make an 800 field and a 900 field. And then told about the 36 row planter he had built and used in those two big fields...said they had to harvest 300 acres just to get the ends off one field. Also had trouble holding the toolbar together.
The same neighbor and I stopped by to see him years later...we just walked in, said hi, told who we were, and he invited us in his office to visit for an hour or so until we had to get back on the road. He had mellowed out some by then.
I'm sure he stepped on some toes in his time, but was interesting to watch and talk about. | |
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Hey MSB, do you have anymore stories on Eugene Smith?
