Other people’s words are just much more interesting than my own.<\/p>\n
Here’s some more from the archives:<\/p>\n
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[me] “So, what do you think about the changes on the island in the last few years–the wheat farming and everything?”<\/p>\n
[other person] “I think it\u2019s pretty much the best of both worlds right now.\u00a0 <\/span>We went from a farming and fishing scene to a tourism scene where there was almost NO farming, and now we have both. And I see it as something that both employs local people, brings money into the community, and gives us . . .\u00a0 <\/span>free advertising, in essence. I see it as we need something on this island that we can export. Because if we\u2019re all fighting for the same money on the ferry, there\u2019s no getting away, no vacationing. And that\u2019s one of the reasons farming died out up here, because it went from in essence working seven days a week, working the land and all the battles that go into that, to working eight hours a day and going home. And it\u2019s much easier.<\/p>\n “But, the land was all sitting fallow up here and a lot of people were wondering why, with all this land, what\u2019s wrong? And now the land is being worked again, and when you have your farmland worked up you get a tax break. So that\u2019s helped, maybe, prolong the ability of people to keep land in the family or keeping it together so it doesn\u2019t have to be divided up and sold. So I have a hard time finding anything negative about the wheat situation. But it\u2019s inevitable up here,\u00a0 <\/span>in this community, there\u2019s always a few \u2026 no matter what <\/em>anybody does, there\u2019s always somebody who hopes they fail. Whether it\u2019s from old grudges, old family feuds, jealousies, or their gene pool is just negative.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n “We\u2019ve lost, sometimes, the ability up here for people to work together\u2014to say, OK I\u2019ll back you even if this won\u2019t help me, because next time you may help me and the next thing may benefit me and not benefit you. It\u2019s real hard up here for people to see that. They want an immediate gratification in a way that\u2019s going to reward them or they\u2019re either against it or they\u2019re threatened by it, or jealous, or I don\u2019t know.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Other people’s words are just much more interesting than my own. Here’s some more from the archives: [me] “So, what do you think about the changes on the island in the last few years–the wheat farming and everything?” [other person] “I think it\u2019s pretty much the best of both worlds right now.\u00a0 We went from … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-washington-island"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}