BOCA RATON — When the Johns family began farming west of Boca Raton in the early 1940s, they knew it was going to be difficult work. “There were almost no roads,” said Dan Johns, whose father, Earl ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — I came across this photo of the Forest Avenue Farmers on Forest Avenue from the early 1940s and it stopped me in my tracks. It was located opposite McDonald Playground, where the ...