Have you had a chance to enjoy some of the fresh local produce available? Our close proximity to so many fruit and vegetable stands is one of the joys of living in Lorain County.
I've enjoyed some excellent Fenik's Sweet Corn a few times – most recently yesterday – as well as some of their tomatoes, which I use in BT Sandwiches (hold the lettuce). I picked up a melon there on Sunday too. It's funny, but although my parents loved watermelons (with salt sprinkled on it), I can take them or leave them.
I had some really great peaches from Bergman Orchards out on Route 53 near Port Clinton. I also picked up a fantastic melon there that I hadn't had before. I think it was a Little Sweetie. Boy, was it good. I wish it had been bigger, but that would have defeated the whole point of it being small and loaded with flavor!
With all of the stands selling melons these days, I though it was odd to see them as the focal point of this Pick-N-Pay ad that ran in the Lorain Journal back on August 4, 1954. But I guess supermarkets (which were still in their relative post-war infancy back then) hadn't latched onto the 'buy local' marketing gimmick yet.
