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John Baskin

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.

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…
June 27, 2016