I attended the wonderful Stone Soup Cafe-sponsored Harvest Supper on Aug. 24, and learned that it was initiated by the late Juanita Nelson, an advocate for local foods and farming. While at the event, I also noticed life-size likenesses of Juanita and her life partner, Wally, while moving around the gathering. I learned that the artwork had been created by Sunny Miller, director of the Traprock Peace Center, located on Woolman Hill in Deerfield, who was the Nelsons’ neighbor for 15 of the years when they lived on that property.

Coincidently, Sunny is a muralist. I would love to see the city of Greenfield install a mural of Juanita and Wally in their garden, the sketches for which have already been completed, in the downtown area somewhere, as an inspiration to anyone who works hard in their garden and who has dreams of creating a more sustainable and equitable lifestyle.

Joann Carol Lutz

Florence