Across Five Aprils
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Chapter one, Ellen Crichton and her nine year old son, Jethro, were planting potatoes and 1/2 acre just south of their cabin that morning in mid April 18 61. They were out in the field as soon as breakfast was over, and Southern Illinois is at that hour was pink, with sunrise and swelling red buds and clusters of blooms over the apple orchard across the road. Jethro walked on the warm Claude's of Ploughed Earth and felt them crumble beneath his feet as he helped, his mother carried the tub of potato cuttings they had prepared the night before.