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Amy Goldman

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AMY GOLDMANAmy Goldman is a gardener, author, artist, and well-known advocate for seed saving, plant breeding, and heirloom fruits and vegetables. Her mission is to celebrate and catalog the magnificent diversity of standard, open-pollinated varieties, and to promote their conservation.Goldman is described as "perhaps the world's premier vegetable gardener" by Gregory Long, President Emeritus of the New York Botanical Garden.She has authored five books, including four that have earned the American Horticultural Society Book of the Year award: Melons for the Passionate Grower (2002) , The Compleat Squash:...

John Carpenter

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John Howard Carpenter is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor and composer. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres, he is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction films from the 1970s and 1980s. Numerous films in Carpenter's career were critical and commercial failures, with the notable exceptions of (1978) and (1981) . However, many of Carpenter's films from the 1970s and the 1980s, such as (1986) and (1988) have since become cult classics, and Carpenter has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker.