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Commentary: Valuing Land

Commentator Jane Brox has taken over the management of her family’s farm. Sifting through some old papers recently, she came across the original deeds to the land. The experience got her thinking about the different ways land has been described and valued through the centuries.

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Dracut Water War

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The Pruner

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Jane’s Place: The Old Mail Road

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Summer at the Farm Stand

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Early Land

Writer Jane Brox begins another growing season on her family’s Massachusetts farm  ? but this year without her Dad.

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A Farm in Winter

Author Jane Brox takes us on a tour of her family farm in Dracut, Massachusetts. Brox’s 85 year old father John Brox also figures into this prosaic passage through a farm in its wintry decline. Mr. Brox passed away the week before this story aired.