Massachusetts: 1,100 Strongly-Worded Letters with Kaben Kramer
The Preamble
Sharon McMahon
4.9 • 15.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sharon tells Kaben Kramer about the best letter-writer of all time, Abigail Adams. Born and raised in the great state of Massachusetts, Abigail wrote over 1,100 letters to her husband, President John Adams, throughout his political career. Her words packed a punch, and her letters frequently persuaded her husband to advocate for women’s rights and condemn slavery on the floors of our new nation’s Congress. Abigail was a trusted wife, loving mother, charitable educator, smallpox inculcator, ammunition maker, and at times, she was referred to as “Mrs. President.” Join Sharon and Kaben as they discuss the incredible life and legacy of Abigail Adams.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends welcome welcome so glad you're here to join me my friend |
| 0:04.8 | Cabin Kramer is here today Cabin and his wife own a walnut farm and if that was |
| 0:10.6 | not interesting enough I have a fantastic story about a woman that I find so inspirational. |
| 0:16.0 | She's one of my favorites. |
| 0:17.6 | I got to share all of the details with Kabin. |
| 0:21.0 | And by the end of the episode episode he loved her too. So let's dive into this episode called |
| 0:27.1 | 1100 strongly worded letters. I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | I am here today with my friend Caban Kramer and why don't you tell everybody what you do because your job is very interesting to me. |
| 0:44.7 | Thank you Sharon, it's great to be here. |
| 0:47.7 | Yeah, I'm a walnut farmer in Northern California. |
| 0:50.0 | So I get to hang out with a bunch of trees all day and take care of some soil and some chickens and let the sun and the soil do its thing. |
| 0:57.0 | I think, I mean, you're so used to thinking about farmers being like, we grow corn. |
| 1:01.0 | These are my cucumbers. and how many walnut farmers are there walnut trees |
| 1:06.5 | grow slowly they grow very slowly but where I farm is kind of like champagne from France. That's kind of the area of |
| 1:14.8 | California. I'm in for walnuts. I mean it is the walnut capital of the |
| 1:17.8 | world. 99% of America's walnuts come from probably within a hundred |
| 1:21.9 | miles of where I am. Wow. Yeah and about half of the world's walnuts I think I could be wrong someone smarter than me will fact check that and let you know. |
| 1:30.0 | How long does a walnut tree have to grow before it starts producing walnuts? |
| 1:36.5 | Typically about seven years. |
| 1:38.1 | So when you put it in the ground, it'll start dropping walnuts maybe in its fourth year, |
| 1:42.0 | fifth year, but you can't really harvest anything |
| 1:44.1 | off of it till about the seventh year, the tree needs to get strong enough and get enough produce. |
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