John Baskin is the author of New Burlington: The Life and Death of an American Village and a collection of essays, In Praise of Practical Fertilizer. He’s the founding editor of the Midwestern publishing company, Orange Frazer Press, Inc., and is completing a new book, The Superfluous Man: An Improbable Story of the Good War.
John Baskin
Articles by John Baskin
Gene, Everlasting (1932–2016)
For some time, I saw Gene Logsdon as a wiry bearded fellow in slouch hat and knee boots, striding purposefully across a field he was sowing by hand. That was…