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The grapes used at Blue Sky Vineyard in Makanda, Ill., are certified in the Shawnee Hills AVA, or meaning that more than 85 percent of the recipe is unique to its region. Blue Sky Vineyard is one of 13 along the Shawnee Hill Wine Trail, a collection of wineries nestled throughout the rolling hills of the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois.
Photo by Diana Soliwon.
The first of the year for me, and the truue sign of the end of summer
I don't think of these as Concord grapes, I think of them as Grandpa Grapes. I remember Grandpa Balestracci walking to our house with a basket of grapes from his grape arbor at the end of the first summer we were living in Worcester.
When I was growing up in my General Motors factory town of Flint, Michigan, my parents (seemingly defiantly) never owned any GM products until right before we moved. Within my lifetime in Flint, they had owned three Plymouths (Fury, Duster, and Volare), a Ford (Tempo), and an AMC/Renault (Encore) before purchasing a 1987 Chevrolet Nova - which wasn't even 100% American.
My Dad drove the yellow 1971 Duster. In retrospect, it's kind of funny to imagine my father - a studious, scary-smart, dual-Ph.D., west African professor - driving a screaming yellow, classic, muscle-era Mopar like that Duster. (Dad would later tell me that yellow was his favorite color.)
If and when my life ever allows it, I want to purchase a yellow '71 Duster with the black tape-stripe package with cartoon "twister" emblems and a black vinyl interior, just like the one Dad had driven.
This '72 Plymouth Duster was as seen at the annual, week-long Back to the Bricks car festival in downtown Flint, Michigan.
August 2010.