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Happy National Watermelon Day!

Did you know, Hempstead, Texas is known as the Watermelon Capital of Texas thanks to its rich farming history and ideal growing conditions. In the early 1900s, it became one of the largest shippers of watermelons in the country, sending sweet Texas melons across the nation. The town embraced the title with pride, celebrating each summer with the Hempstead Watermelon Festival—complete with seed-spitting contests, parades, a Watermelon Queen, and plenty of fresh watermelon. This long-standing tradition has made Hempstead a symbol of Texas watermelon pride.

Nobody asked you to help. You just sat down next to her and started. 🫛

There was a paper sack on the porch and two bowls, and it took the whole afternoon, and that was fine because there was nowhere else anybody had to be. And she was fast at it in a way you could not follow, thumb along the seam and the whole pod open in one motion, while you were still working on your third one.
And you talked, or you did not. That was the thing about it. There were long stretches where neither of you said anything at all and it was not uncomfortable, and then she would say something about somebody in the family from forty years ago and you would find out something you never knew. You got most of your family history sitting on a porch doing a job with your hands. 💛

Snapping beans, shelling peas, shucking corn, peeling apples. Every family had one. So tell me what you sat and did with somebody, and what they told you while you did it.



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