Young Love in the Juneberries
A homesick North Dakota soldier writing from California in 1898 had one burning question for his mother back in Jamestown: were the juneberries ripe yet? He’d rather “fall into a patch of juneberries, chokecherries, or bullberries than have all the tame fruit in California.” His longing reveals something deeper than mere nostalgia—it captures how settlers on the northern plains came to embrace wild native fruits as symbols of their emerging identity and connection to this harsh, beautiful land. Tom Isern with Prairie Public News has the full story.
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