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Article: Berried treasures ; As harvesting season hits its stride, a region celebrates its ocean of red
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 4, 2009
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CARVER - With the flick of a switch, a huge wooden machine that
almost scrapes the ceiling springs to life at the Flax Pond
Cranberry Co., carrying cratefuls of bright berries up a conveyer
belt to judgment day as it did for generations here in Southeastern
Massachusetts.
And while the 130-year-old machine is no longer in regular use -
more modern equipment does the job now - Dot Angley uses it to
illustrate the careful process by which berries make the grade for
consumption or are relegated to some other use.
"A good cranberry will bounce," said Angley, who with her
husband, Jack, a longtime town selectman, farms 100 acres of
bountiful bogs at the end of a dirt lane off Pond Street.
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