Comments for Jim Minick

Comment on “Blueberry Years” gets great review in Roanoke Times by Nancy Tornetta

Nancy Tornetta — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:17:35 +0000

Just read the last page of your book. I was so pleased to see your website listed because I so much wanted you to know what an incredibly enjoyable experience it was. Your beautiful prose, along with your bare-naked honesty gave this book a “page-turner” status without containing any of the usual requirements to make it so. You are truly a talented writer and I, for one, am glad you put the blueberry years aside in order to create this wonderful book.

Comment on “Blueberry Years” gets great review in Roanoke Times by Jim Minick

Jim Minick — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:21:50 +0000

Barbara,
Thanks for the kind words and for sharing your great memories. Sounds like you had a great blueberry childhood!
Glad you enjoyed the book and that it took you back to those times.
Again, thanks and all the best,
Jim

Comment on “Blueberry Years” gets great review in Roanoke Times by Barbara

Barbara — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 02:12:48 +0000

Hi Jim, Just finished your “Blueberry Years” book. I really enjoyed it. It took me back to my childhood years . I was born and grew up at the blueberry fields where my father was the foreman. He took care of the two large blueberry fields for the owner. We lived on the property so my dog and I roamed the fields, the surrounding New Jersey pine woods, walked up and down long rows and rows of bushes, enjoyed the stream that ran through the lower field where I gathered water washed stones of pink, clear ,tan and white and ate lots of blueberries. The Jerseys were my favorite and I remember the names of many of the other berry bushes. I road on the tractor to the field with my father when I was little and when I was older, I learned to drive on the old truck with the flat back built to carry the carriers filled with pint boxes of berries from the pickers sheds in the fields to the packing house where I worked with local people from the Pines who “topped” and covered the pints with clear covering with the company name stamped on it. They were packed in cedar flats made in the back of the packing house .covered with two thin cedar wood pieces and stacked for shipping. Dad and his small crew of local workers took care off the plowing, planting ,pruning, mowing, picking, packing and sending our truck load of berry filled flats to the location a few towns away where they would be shipped to stores. I remember one year when a late freeze took much of the crop. My mother and I stood at the living room window and looked out at bushes covered with sparkling ice frozen on the bushes to protect them fom frost. We had problems with deer. The company brought in fencing and the men put it around the lower field. I don,t remember the upper field being fenced. We lived at the Blueberry Fields until the company sold it after many years. Thanks for your book. Who says, “You can’t go home?” Your book took me back home. I will always remember my blueberry years. Barbara

Comment on “Blueberry Years” gets great review in Roanoke Times by Jim Minick

Jim Minick — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:03:20 +0000

Thanks a bunch, River!

Comment on “Blueberry Years” gets great review in Roanoke Times by River

River — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:55:55 +0000

Yes, a terrific review. I love your book. A brave book about pursuing dreams at all costs.

Comment on “Blueberry Years” gets great review in Roanoke Times by Cliff

Cliff — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:25:06 +0000

That’s great Jim! Kudos!