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Bernes are berries, and if they
can be stuffed into pies, jelled into
jam, or squashed into juice, we
pick’em. The Bluebemes, Straw
berries, Blackbemes, and Rasp
berries are over for the season, and
what’s left? Elderberries.
The thicket whcrq the elderber
nes grew got more jungle-like
every year. Lying in the hollow,
between the hill behind the bam
and the high woods, it thrived on
the run-off from two slopes, and
kept the deep topsoil tied down
with cross-stitched roots. The trou
ble was, the rich soil could be
growing something better.
Over the years, the thicket has
been a haven for groundhogs, and
a hiding place for other critters that
don’t like to be seen when you’re
carrying a gun. Heifers liked to hid
their new-born calf in it, just to
play hard-to-get. We once found a
missing sow with her brood of nine
pigs, comfortably holed up in the
densest part of the thicket. She
knew it was only temporary, and
needed little coaxing to return with
her brood to the source of feed and
comfort of her pen.
The hired man wasn’t above
slipping into the shade of the thick
et for an afternoon nap, while the
plow team rested. There was no
flowing water, but the ground was
always moist and cool. Turtles
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seemed to love the place, and an
occasional snapper was caught for
use in turtle soup. We were person
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their flat bellies for carving initials
and dates with a pocket knife. One
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But now that the elderberries are
ripe, the thicket takes on new
meaning. Kids love to pick the
bunches, especially when they are
ripe and full, and the birds haven’t
found them yet.
Mama was agreeable to making
a pic or two, if someone else would
pick them, shuck off the stems, and
deliver the clean berries to the
kitchen. They were not her favorite
pie filling - they tpok too much
sugar and they stained all the uten
sils, including the pickers hands.
But you can’t be choosy this time
of year.
If the Kids get too carried away
and deliver more than enough for a
couple of pics, there’s always
elderberry jelly. The color can’t be
matched by any other fruit, espe
cially when it drips on the table
cloth or on Pop’s Sunday shirt. It’s
royal hue can still be spotted on the
porch floor, where someone
dropped a fresh jar and the lid
popped off.
A few quart jars of elderberries
were canned each year, in spite of
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Working for people who work the land
Mamas’ protest that they take up
more room than they’re worth.
They never make it through the
winter though, without ending up
in a pie.
The year of the Turtle also
marked the end of the Elderberry
patch. The harvest was good, but
Mama would have no more of
those purple beads that left their
stain on everything. So, Papa
decided to make wine.
The old wooden barrel was hid
den in the bam cellar and nearly
forgotten, until Uncle George, on
one of his regular Sunday visits,
found it while we were at Church.
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He was a regular Sunday morning
visitor for a while, until he got
careless and left the siphon run and
emptied the barrel on the bam
floor. Finis. The End. No more
elderberries.
Papa decided that the thicket
must go.
The next week we began the
backaching labor of grubbing out
the bushes, exposing soil that was
100 rich for such an humble crop
anyway. More valuable crops were
raised there over the years, but
none that ever sparked the imagi
nation and memories like the old
Elderberry patch.
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