AT 11 Years old in 1937 I worked at Long Hill Orchard Wher Mr, Burford was the manager, I made 10 cents per hour, My Father Got 15cents per Hour Picking Apples, very Often THE largest Apples were On a Limb Kinder way up & out on the limbs Mr Burford would hold a Ladder for me as i was lighter than the Grown men, We would Get THE Largest apples. I will be 83 in Mar/2009 Too old to PICK Apples npw BUT can still remember a Great Man & Most of the Names ofthe Children that were in Smyrna School in 1936 I often Wonder what happened to, Bily Hicks, S F Grant Jr, Betty & Jean Grant, Wilson, Lewis, Dorthy, Thelma & Ronald Davis, I know that The Campbell Family Died out, PLUS LOYD Sale, & His Sister, I HAVE FOUND Payton Cunningham JR., Jess & Mary Franklin, Jean Burch & Brother Tom Peck AW Shucks, Thinking YOUNG, Is there any one else around that KNEW these people CUZ A T Powell <atpowelljr@aol.com> Tom Burford, Monroe, Amherst County, Virginia Tom Burford is an internationally recognized expert on heritage apples and orchard archaeology. He grew up on an orchard in Amherst County, Virginia, where he learned the apple and peach cultivation techniques his family had practiced for generations. Tom has traveled around the world to identify varieties of apples and lecture on the history of apple cultivation</HTML>