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Train travel memories

From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Length: 08:25

Friends are missing from the annual apple press. Where are they? Traveling by train taking us back to train memories Read the full description.

Img2207_small At the annual apple press at Blackberry farm there are friends missing. They are traveling by train, one to the East Coast another to the Hill country above Delhi. Then traveling back in memory to a train ride into love - and another one -

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Piece Description

At the annual apple press at Blackberry farm there are friends missing. They are traveling by train, one to the East Coast another to the Hill country above Delhi. Then traveling back in memory to a train ride into love - and another one -

Broadcast History

Aired on Good Morning West Marin on Monday October 1 2007

Transcript

September 2007

Yesterday we held our annual apple pressing at Blackberry Farm. It is always a fun day, a day for friends to get together and reconnect over a bathtub of washing apples and sack loads of apple slurry. Then there is the final table, where the cider is filtered, bottled and sampled and more catch-up conversations carry on. The day is full and quite hardworking and a reminder of the importance of friends who care for and harvest from the land. But as we joined together we were also aware of our family and friends who were not with us. Robert Dalva?s wife Marcia was on a train traveling back to the East Coast. Janet Robbins?s husband Matthew was on a train from Delhi to Mussourie in India. Marcia rarely flies and will always take the train if she can. Matthew was on his way to the hill country above Delhi. The closest airport was closed for repair and so he, with his frien...
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