{"id":6280,"date":"2022-08-30T12:49:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T19:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/?post_type=book&p=6280"},"modified":"2024-02-14T11:46:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:46:43","slug":"to-eat-a-country-life","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/to-eat-a-country-life\/","title":{"rendered":"To Eat: A Country Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd shared over 40 years together, most of it at a home they called North Hill in Readsboro, Vermont.\u00a0 This is a long time for any couple, but especially noteworthy for gay men.\u00a0 Their garden inspired many books, written by each singly or by both.\u00a0 The Miller Library has eight of their titles on subjects that include annuals, tender perennials, roses, and garden design.\u00a0 \u00a0Winterrowd\u2019s \u201cAnnuals for Connoisseurs\u201d (1992) is one of my personal favorites.<\/p>\n

Eck and Winterrowd met in a gay nightclub in Boston during the late 1960s.\u00a0 Often such encounters are brief, but they spent much of the night talking together and walking the Boston Common.\u00a0 They never parted.\u00a0 Eager for a rural life, they found their Vermont home a few years later, initially making their living as school teachers before transitioning to full-time garden designers and authors.<\/p>\n

Most of their books celebrate the many aspects of their life together at North Hill, including raising a son.\u00a0 Their final book, \u201cTo Eat: A Country Life\u201d was started jointly in 2010, but after Winterrowd died suddenly that fall, Eck was left to finish it alone.\u00a0 The book was published in 2013.\u00a0 The men shared many passions, but eating had \u201calways been central.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bobbi Angell, a noted botanical artist who lived near North Hill, provided the illustrations for \u201cTo Eat.\u201d\u00a0 She also has an essay in the book about a lunch with the couple shortly before Winterrowd\u2019s death.\u00a0 In a conversation musing about their place in rural Vermont, she concludes: \u201cWayne and Joe\u2019s life–their plants, their friends, their stories–came from around the world, city and country alike.\u201d<\/p>\n

Excerpted from Brian Thompson’s article in the Fall 2022 issue of the Arboretum Bulletin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd shared over 40 years together, most of it at a home they called North Hill in Readsboro, Vermont.\u00a0 This is a long time for any couple, but especially noteworthy for gay men.\u00a0 Their garden inspired many books, written by each singly or by both.\u00a0 The Miller Library has eight of their titles on subjects that include annuals, tender perennials, roses, and garden design.\u00a0 \u00a0Winterrowd\u2019s \u201cAnnuals for Connoisseurs\u201d (1992) is one of my personal favorites. Eck…<\/p>\n

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