Mighty Giants: An American Chestnut Anthology
Chestnuts in my Life  by Jimmy Carter. - Poems by Wendell Berry and Robert Frost. - Chestnut folklore and anecdotes, including reminiscences fromsouthern Appalachia to New England, along with historical newspaper chronicles of the tree before, during, and after the blight. - Chestnut reflections by plant geneticist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Borlaug, father of the  Green Revolution.  -Colorful accounts of railroads and locomotives that logged mammoth chestnut trees in Appalachia, by Les Line, longtime editor of Audubon magazine. -Chestnut recollections and inspirations from Bill Owens, Dolly Parton s uncle, a Tennessee mountain man, musician, and champion of the tree. - Excerpts from best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver s Prodigal Summer, about a curmudgeonly chestnut breeder and his cantankerous rural Virginia neighbor. - Chestnut scenes from artists such as Winslow Homer, Seneca Ernie Smith, Andrew Wyeth, Charles Burchfield, and a generous selection of seldom-seen photographs of American chestnut throughout its history.