Sally visited with a book club in Oklahoma City recently. The hostess served ham and beans with cornbread, apple pie and ice cream . . . and of course, turnips.
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"The Late Sooner is a historical fiction based on my great grandfather's diary. Sanford Deering staked a claim in the Unassigned Lands of the Oklahoma Territory four months after the first land opening in 1889. He wrote one line a day in a ledger. They survived the famine of 1890 known as "The Year of the Turnip." All crops failed except turnips. Men and beast alike had nothing else to eat.
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