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04/16/2003 Entry: "News From A Maryfarm Resident"
Someone who used to live in the Easton Catholic Worker farm has sent me an e-mail. Here's part of it. I don't actually have permission to publish it. If the author's not OK with it, please let me know, and I'll remove it.
By some happy accident, while Googling all over the place, as I do, sometimes, in search of gems of information or images of the places and people of my early life (in this case the search term was "Easton"), I came across your (Sept. 1, 2002) blog about locating the site of the Catholic Worker farm (known as Maryfarm) at Easton. I was thrilled, because, you see, my parents lived on that farm for a year or two, after they were married at the Catholic Worker in New York in February 1942. I was born at the farm. Well, not born ON the farm, but my mother had to walk down from the hills, in a blizzard and all alone, in labor, to the hospital in town to deliver yours truly. I am now 60 years old. My parents are gone, along with just about all of their contemporaries. I have often thought of trying to go and see the Easton farm, or what might remain of it, someday, but I had no idea how to locate it. I have consulted several people with C.W. ties but they have only vague ideas. I know that it was on or near Morgan Hill, which you mentioned. I also remember talk about a family that was left behind when the rest of the community disbanded -- Victor and Eva Smith. You mentioned the Smith family, it must be their descendants.
Pretty cool !
