The False Spring

2012: A disaster of historic proportions

by Madeline Strong Diehl

posted 6/27/2012

In March, garlands of white and yellow blossoms festooned the hundreds of apple trees that have been carefully planted over the past eighty years at the Lutz family's orchard, located about five miles southwest of Saline. Normally the blossoms are an encouraging and uplifting sight--but not when they arrive three weeks early, as they did this March. A series of

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