Longtime manager at Valley s first CSA steps down, leads fundraising campaign to buy farm amherstbulletin.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from amherstbulletin.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Longtime manager at Valley’s first CSA steps down, leads fundraising campaign to buy farm >Dan Kaplan stands by drying garlic at Brookfield Farm in Amherst. He and his wife, Karen Romanowski, have stepped down from managing the farm after 27 years and transferred responsibilities to Kerry and Max Taylor. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS >New Brookfield Farm co-manager Kerry Taylor, right, works with volunteer Caroline Keppler to seed trays. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS >New Brookfield Farm co-manager Kerry Taylor, right, works with volunteer Caroline Keppler to seed trays. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS >Dan Kaplan, Kerry Taylor and Max Taylor at Brookfield Farm in Amherst. Kaplan has passed managing responsibilities to the Taylors as he oversees a fundraising campaign to buy all of the farm’s cultivated acres outright. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
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Perseverance and determination. Despair and defeat. Opportunity and danger. Hopes raised and dashed.For a family of Somali refugees who spent years in a refugee camp in Kenya, the United States beckoned as the promised land, one where they might all.
The promised land: Book recounts one family’s effort to find a country to call home
TY MCCORMICK
Ty McCormick’s “Beyond the Sand and Sea” chronicles a Somali family that spent years in a Kenyan refugee camp before four of its members made it the U.S.
Maryan Hussein, at left, in Dadaab, during a visit back to the huge Kenyan refugee camp in 2019. She had immigrated to the U.S. in 2005. CONTRIBUTED/TY MCCORMICK
A aerial view of Dadaab and the flat desert terrain of eastern Kenya where the sprawling refugee camp is located. At one point, Ty McCormick says, the camp a held almost 500,000 people. CONTRIBUTED/TY MCCORMICK