John Peterson | The Sun Magazine

John Peterson

John Peterson is a farmer, writer, and founder of Angelic Organics. He lives in Caledonia, Illinois.

— From September 1995
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Grave Love

Bill Pody was our love guru. He drank twelve Pepsis a day, smoked three packs of Marlboros, and occasionally ate — usually a cheeseburger. He was forty-one. He lived in a lime green trailer next to a short, concrete silo. From my farm we could see the silo presiding over Pody’s hill.

September 1995
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