Green Writers Press is proud to announce the first book in our placebased history series An American Harvest How One Family Moved from DirtPoor Farming to a Better Life in the Early 1900s by Vermont writer and University of Vermont professor emerita Cardy Raper PhD. Sometimes sad sometimes humorous sometimes scandalous An American Harvest is the reallife tale of seven brothers and one sister who grew up dirt poor on a wornout tobacco farm in North Carolina but with strong parental guidance