e’s still the force behind this fruitful feifdom
familiar face among the crowd of
customers, teases a couple of his
high-school sales staffers, proudly
points out his grandson among the
work crew, and zips back to the
telephone again, barely pausing
for breath.
Joe Raab, at 73, with a mixed life
of planting and politics in his blood,
could leave younger farmers
trailing in the lurch as he plots
harvest and sales for the bumper
crops of produce, in a year when
every grower battled for space in
an overflowing, tight market.
“If we farmers could just get
together...,” he grumbles, leaving
the sentence dangling and racing
Sales staffers Gina Joslow, left, and Chris Morrison, help keep market shelves full and
wait on customers at the retail center.
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Bom in Schuylkill Haven, the
infant Raab became a York
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parents returned home to help
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After finishing ninth grade,
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his town job, took over the mor
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the fifth genertion of the Raab
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acquired - via a goatskin deed -
from William Penn’s nephew, John
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