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FOREWORD

From time to time curiosity provokes a friendly reader to ask me how I discovered the Farmhand community. I appreciate curiosity, it is a state of mind entirely underrated, but to say how I discovered the Farmhand community might imply that were lost, which they are likely to consider patronizing, and this is a state I prefer to avoid. That the Farmhand coterie tends towards the irascible, sails close to arson, spy on each other, are vain and self-aggrandizing and subject to crazy schemes, does not detract me from a great regard for their earnest inventiveness and readiness to take on the modern world. In short, they are great role models for folks everywhere.

This collection owes its genesis to a trip I made in 2011 to Lambertville, New Jersey where Ms Ingrid Periz introduced me to Mr Farmhand. Ms Periz has sometimes kindly sent me photos of both Mr Farmhand and Frank Winkler which appear in this collection and, to put it plainly, we’ve gossiped quite a bit about these folks, and sometimes speculated about their doings. That said the notes are all my own, as are the rest of the pictures, an admission which I hope does not bring any class action down upon me.

Carol Jenkins