Joyce Carol Oates wrote, “In a time of social distancing writers find themselves, surprisingly, at an advantage. Ever adaptable, we humans are also the storytelling species: No matter the technology, no matter the grimness of our condition, we want to be told stories.
In November of 1959 a delicious story began at a rural corner of a South Dade farm field. An eight year old boy by the name of Robert Moehling was given the task to sell an excess of the family’s cucumbers.
The way I have heard the tale …. and any tale told as often as this one has every right to have a slightly curvy road … was that he sold not a one his very first day. His exasperated father took a storm shutter and spray painted “Robert is Here” in cursive lettering.
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