A frequent question to this writer is "How do you find all of these nice people to write about?" This is one example of how it all comes together.

An e-mail arrived that said, "I thought that maybe this would be an interesting gardening story to put into the paper since my husband is a highly decorated veteran from the Vietnam war. We moved from Williamsburg to Gloucester three years ago and just love it here. Last year Kenneth Flaum, my husband, planted a small garden for the first time. We started out with tomato plants and pepper plants. They did very well so we decided to add additional vegetables this year. Kenneth was a combat corpsman. He earned three Purple Hearts and a Silver Star. In spite of all of his disabilities from his injuries in Vietnam, he planted (this year) tomatoes, peppers, beans, eggplant and cucumbers. …Because of his military disabilities he is limited to what he can do, but the garden has given him something that he can do and eviden...