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FOR EVERYONE WHO LOVES THIS COUNTRY

Victor Davis Hanson on Our Farming Heritage

The historian and fifth-generation farmer explains the connection between cultivating the land and our national character

Thanksgiving Fun With Jacques Pépin

For the French chef, perfectly at home in America, only turkey will do

At age 17, Alina Morse is having the time of her life at the helm of a million-dollar company devoted to a sweet mission: making candy that’s good for your teeth

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Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969, in a photograph taken by Neil Armstrong.

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

—BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Natural Remedy

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Produced

Features

8 | Automotive Masterpiece

Only 51 of the remarkably innova tive Tucker cars were ever made, and now they’re worth millions.

14 | Sweetest Smiles

A young entrepreneur is taking her sugar-free candy company to the next level while inspiring kids to get creative.

18 | A Land of Farmers

Our agrarian past was key to shap ing our national character, says his torian Victor Davis Hanson.

| An American Identity, Lost and Found

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Trapped during China’s Cultural Revolution, Teresa Buczacki fought her way to freedom and now tells her story.

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| A New Generation of Opera Singers

The Schmidt Vocal Academy guides high school and college-age stu dents toward their opera-singing dreams.

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| Tales That Houses Tell Leading interior designer Cathy Kincaid breathes new life into America’s historic homes with her signature touch of effortless yet approachable elegance.

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| Championing American Wool

An Oregon sheep rancher is work ing for a more sustainable fashion industry, starting from its real roots: the land.

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| A Grandmother’s Love

A reader fondly remembers his grandmother’s graceful, quiet example.

46 | Why I Love America

Reader Jose Gil believes that no matter its flaws, America will still be that city upon a hill—because of the values it stands for.

History

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| Bountiful Harvest

Meet the tolerant governor who made the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving possible and secured America’s first democracy.

52 | An Influential First Lady

President John Adams had a truly amazing wife who helped pave the way for women’s education.

56 | A Gutsy Plan

A daring Union officer gambled on a plan: to torpedo a seemingly unsink able ironclad.

60 | Flying for Poland

To fight the Red Army, Capt. Cooper formed a squadron of brave American pilots to save Poland.

64 | Traveling Light

How to reduce weight on the lunar module? An ingenious aerospace company found a way.

70 | Suit Up!

Throughout the ages, each space suit has its unique features to make exploration possible and safe.

Lifestyle

72 | Book Recommender Cozy fireside reads: A heart-pound ing recounting of a WWII battal ion’s daring exploits; and a powerful narrative exploring one fateful year that shaped America.

74 | Keeping Up With Jacques Pépin

Over a lifetime of cooking and teaching in America, the legendary French chef has learned some les sons of his own.

82 | Turkey Time

How much turkey do we consume every year? What did “Mary Had a Little Lamb” have to do with Thanksgiving? Find out fun facts about America’s most beloved holiday.

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| Howdy, Buckaroo!

At the Hunewill Ranch in California, six generations have been preserving the cowboy way of life—and guests get to experience it for themselves firsthand.

92 | A Grown-in-America Gift Guide

From tropical fruits to Wagyu steaks, there’s something for every one in our farm-to-table holiday gift guide.

Editor’s Note

As American scholar Richard Weaver said, “Ideas have consequences.”

For entrepreneurs and inventors, it often all starts with a spark of an idea. For Alina Morse (page 14), that light-bulb moment came when she was just 7 years old: Why not make a healthy candy alternative that tastes good? Now 17 and the head of million-dollar company Zolli Candy, she is still one of America’s youngest CEOs. Promoting good oral health care remains central to her work, but she’s also giving kids the resources they need to start their own companies—to help their spark catch fire.

In this issue, we also pay a visit to Victor Davis Hanson (page 18). A well-known historian and classicist, he is also a fifth-gen eration farmer whose insights into America’s agrarian heritage have been formed through lived experience as well as his study of history. Though farming in America today is no longer scaled to a 40-acre-per-family model, farming, for most of our nation’s his tory, inextricably shaped our national character and cultivated a particular set of values. It’s a heritage we should not forget.

We also spoke to author Teresa Buczacki (page 24), the first American to make her way out of communist China at a time when the regime denied the existence of any U.S. citizens in the country. Despite humiliation, hard labor, and even near death, she held fast to the idea—and the promise—of America. It carried her through dark times, and it still does today.

May we always remember our blessings as Americans.

Editor-In-Chief Channaly Philipp Editor@AmericanEssence.net

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A Nation

Shaped by Farmers

Historian and farmer Victor Davis Hanson on America’s agrarian heritage and its influence on our national character

WRITTEN BY Channaly Philipp PHOTOGRAPHED BY Samira Bouaou

It’s nearly a 200-mile commute home for historian Victor Davis Hanson from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he travels once a week, to his quiet family farm in the fertile Central Valley of California.

As a classicist, he’s at ease with the ancient world but often brings a historian’s insightful perspective to current events. And he’s also a fifth-generation farmer.

His house, surrounded by almond orchards, holds many stories—from the generations who sacrificed all of their soul, sweat, and hardearned money trying to save the farm, to later generations who decided this wasn’t the life for them and moved away with no intention

of ever returning. Of the original 180 acres that were passed down through the years, only 42 remain—rented out to a farmer who owns 12,000 acres in the surrounding region. This is California, where agriculture has gone almost all corporate, leaving farming families with few choices: mainly to scale up vertically and jump into agribusiness, or to sell and move away.

The America where 40 acres per family was the norm is now long gone. But its personality, the strength of its communities, and its work ethic were all deeply shaped by family farming. In this conversation, Hanson talks about this important aspect of our nation’s heritage.

This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

LEFT Victor Davis Hanson walks among the almond orchards surrounding his home in Selma, Calif., with two of his beloved dogs.

Where Stories Come Home

WRITTEN BY Brett Chudá

When historical American homes are in need of preserva tion and an exqui sitely traditional makeover, their homeowners have turned to interior designer Cathy Kincaid for over 40 years. She’s played fairy godmother to dozens of charming houses that are full of character, including a 1750s Connecticut ferryman’s cot tage on the water, Manhattan pent houses, and a forested East Texas estate. “I think it’s so important to live in something that has history,”

Exploring the unique stylings of beloved Texas interior designer Cathy Kincaid

Kincaid said. “I think it inspires us … to be interested in the history of the United States, where we live, our cities. And these older homes, they do have a story to tell.”

Many of the storied residences Kincaid has worked on have been

featured in the world’s top home magazines and are compiled in her 2019 book, “The Well Adorned Home,” published by Rizzoli.

Texas Charm

ABOVE The sun-filled entry of Cathy Kincaid’s Dallas cottage, a one-story home built during the post-World War I era.

ABOVE RIGHT Kincaid’s collection of porcelain accentuates the cottage’s New England design.

Originally from Fort Worth, Texas, Kincaid attended Texas Christian University before moving to Dallas in the 1970s. There, she worked with local legendary designers before hanging up her own sign in 1978.

In her sweet but serious Texas drawl, she described two superb renovations that are close to her heart.

The property Kincaid endearingly calls the “East Texas Farmhouse” is a recreation property on one of the largest remaining private lots close to Dallas, with hundreds of acres of forest, a lake, and a guest house. It was built in the mid-20th century by the famous wrestlers, the Von Erich brothers.

Although they made their living wrestling, the Von Erichs made sophisticated choices for their large farmhouse and were delightfully creative as they went about design

One Candle Lights a Thousand

William Bradford and his wise governance of the Plymouth Colony

WRITTEN BY Jeff Minick

Death came to them in many guises. A sailor who had blasphemed in front of the children fell ill from fever and was buried at sea. Dorothy, the wife of Pilgrim William Bradford, reached the New Land, but slipped from the moored Mayflower and drowned in the freezing waters of Cape Cod harbor. By the end of their first winter in this wilderness, 1620–1621, almost half of the original 102 settlers had

died, most of them from disease.

The first governor of the colony was the capable John Carver. He was quite possibly the author of “The Mayflower Compact,” a cov enant of basic democratic rules by which the colonists would govern themselves, signed by 41 of the men going ashore. He directed the building of houses, the gathering of food, and with the help of Squanto, a native who spoke fluent English, engineered a treaty with Massasoit

of the Wampanoag Confederacy. Yet by the spring of 1621, Carver too had gone to the grave, a victim of heat stroke or bad water.

A New Governor

The colonists who escaped this winter of death then elected William Bradford as governor, a post he would hold for most of the next 30 years.

Plymouth Colony

History

sibility. Orphaned at an early age, and raised by an uncle on a farm where he worked in the fields, Bradford also spent a portion of his boyhood ill and confined to bed. There he immersed himself in the Bible and other religious texts. By the time he was a teenager, he had decided he was a Separatist, a branch of the Puritans seeking to break from the rites and rituals of the Anglican Church. When the Separatists later emigrated to the Netherlands to escape government persecution, Bradford was among them, working in the cloth trade and deepening both his faith and his familiarity with likeminded dis senters. He was, then, an educated believer who knew the meaning of hard physical work.

Despite these advantages, like his predecessor, Bradford faced grave challenges. The colonists who had stepped ashore at Plymouth were divided into Separatists and Strangers. The latter had traveled to the New World not for reli gious freedom but from motives of wealth and ambition. Native tribes might still threaten the colonists, so weakened were they by sickness and death. Fields must be planted, more houses and a fortress built, and land fairly distributed to every family, excluding servants. In the meantime, they could expect only rare intermittent assistance from England. In that regard, they might as well have lived on Mars.

And William Bradford met these challenges. Moreover, he and the other Plymouth settlers gave our nation a basket filled with gifts.

Many Gifts

The “Mayflower Compact” is a short document—it can be read in a couple of minutes—but therein lies a phrase that would guide Bradford and would eventually

In several ways, his past had well prepared Bradford for this respon

LEFT “The Mayflower on Her Arrival in Plymouth Harbor” by William Halsall, 1882. Oil on canvas. Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth.

Buzz Aldrin removes the passive seismometer from a compartment in the SEQ bay of the Lunar Lander (Apollo 11 “Eagle”), July 21, 1969.

The Little Company That Could

Grumman’s engineering team took us to the moon (and got us back again)

WRITTEN BY Bob Kirchman

In the fall of 1962, a little air plane manufacturer on Long Island, Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, beat out seven competitors for the lunar module contract. How did this happen?

The story begins when Leroy Grumman, the company’s founder, struck out on his own in 1929. Working out of a rented garage, he began developing some of his own experimental airplane designs. In 1932, he presented the U.S. Navy with the FF-1, his first production fighter aircraft. The plane’s design continued to be improved, leading eventually to the creation of the F4F Wildcat, Grumman’s first fighter with folding wings.

Grumman built tough planes. The “cat” series, built for the U.S. Navy, had a reputation for getting their crews home. The sturdy air craft, designed and built for carrier deployment, earned the company the nickname “Grumman Iron Works.” Aluminum, however, was the material Grumman engineers had real mastery over, forming it into beautiful aerodynamic shapes to build their planes.

Enter Aeronautic Engineer

Tom Kelly

Grumman engineer Tom Kelly spoke of his involvement in the early development of the moon lander: “I guess I’ve been involved in Apollo-related work as long as anybody in Grumman, actually. I started on the thing in 1960—April 1960.” Kelly and his team competed for NASA-funded studies. Though they didn’t win any of them, Kelly said, “we went down and gave our own study conclusions to the NASA people right along with everybody else—we had a very active interest in-house, and we just wouldn’t let it die; whether it was funded, or not, we kept going with it.” Kelly’s work ushered in a whole new era for the company.

Grumman was not one of the larger competitors for NASA con tracts. They initially offered to be a subcontractor in General Electric’s bid to build the command mod ule and service module. North American Aviation beat them out. NASA had originally intended for the command module and service module to land on the moon and take off directly from the lunar

surface to return to Earth. That particular spacecraft configuration proved to be prohibitively massive. It would require a rocket larger than anything already developed just to get it into space. But an engineer at Langley Research Center, John Houbolt, suggested taking along a smaller spacecraft, just to land on the moon. It would then launch from the lunar surface and rejoin the command module, which would now remain in lunar orbit.

The lander would be discarded after the astronauts transferred back inside the command module, which alone would return to Earth. Rendezvous in lunar orbit seemed risky, but it saved so much weight that it allowed the program to go forward at a pace that would meet President John Kennedy’s chal lenge to land on the moon within

Grumman built 15 landers, 6 of which actually went to the moon.

A French Chef’s American Legacy

Jacques Pépin, as eager a student as he is generous a teacher, shares his must-have Thanksgiving recipes, and reflects on his time teaching generations of Americans how to cook

WRITTEN BY Crystal Shi

If you’re inviting Jacques Pépin to Thanksgiving dinner, you’d better have turkey on the table.

How about something else this year, you might venture—a nice roast chicken, or a glazed ham?

“I don’t want to do something else,” the chef would kindly, but

firmly, inform you. “I want to have a turkey for Thanksgiving; I want to do Brussels sprouts and sweet potato and an apple tart.” The bird has been a non-negotiable since Pépin’s first Thanksgiving in 1959, two months after he arrived in America as an eager young chef with experience working in Paris’s

most prestigious kitchens. He fell in love with the spirit of the holi day—“There is no political affilia tion, no religious affiliation; it’s just people getting together, enjoying food, wine, and company,” he said— and with America itself.

“I only came to stay a year, maybe two years, to learn the language, and

go back to France. I loved it and never went back—except for vaca tion.” Since then, the transplanted Frenchman has taught millions of Americans how to cook.

He’s the author of 32 cookbooks, the most recent being “Art of the Chicken,” published in September 2022, and a longtime host of PBS cooking shows—including one with his dear friend and fellow pioneer ing TV chef, Julia Child. Since the beginning of the pandemic, he’s continued to offer confidence and comfort to anxious, shelter ing-at-home viewers with the award-winning “Jacques Pépin: Cooking at Home” web series, in 280-and-counting 2- to 6-min ute videos posted to Instagram and Facebook with the help of his daughter, Claudine.

At nearly 87, Pépin still chops and sautés with an efficient, effort less fluency honed over decades of experience. His narration is just as easy and precise, deftly doling out instruction as he breaks down a whole chicken or shimmies a per fectly fluffed French omelet onto a plate.

And after all these years, he still cooks with an unmistakable French accent—though he’d argue that it doesn’t extend so much to the food. “Very often, people consider me the quintessential French chef,” Pépin said from his home in Madison, Connecticut, where he’s lived since 1975.

“And then you open one of my books, and there on page 32, you have a black bean soup with banana

and cilantro on top.” Pépin’s late wife, Gloria, was half Puerto Rican and half Cuban. “Then you have a Kentucky fried chicken from Howard Johnson. Then you have a lobster roll from Connecticut. So I mean,” he said, smiling, “I’m prob ably the quintessential American chef now, after all these years.”

Dreaming of America

Born in Bourg-en-Bresse, France, a small town northwest of Lyon, Pépin grew up helping out in his parents’ restaurant, Le Pélican. At age 13, he left school to begin a culi nary apprenticeship at the Grand Hôtel de L’Europe. By his early 20s, he’d worked his way up Paris’s culi nary ladder, and, during his mili tary service, he served as personal chef to three French heads of state, including Charles de Gaulle.

But he set his sights on farther shores.

“America was always kind of the Golden Fleece for me,” Pépin said. “Most people who come to America come here for economic reasons, to have a better life maybe, or politi cal reasons, or religious reasons. I

didn’t really have any of that. I had a very good job in Paris. My parents had a restaurant. I was fine. But I wanted to come to America.”

At the age of 23, he made good on his wish. He arrived in New York in September 1959. He didn’t mean to stay for long, but life changed his plans.

Within 48 hours of arrival, he landed a job cooking under Pierre Franey at Le Pavillon, the pinnacle of haute cuisine in America at the time, and he soon befriended the “who’s who” of the burgeoning food world—chef James Beard, New York Times food editor Craig Claiborne, and, of course, Julia Child.

“People were extremely welcom ing,” Pépin recalled, and he saw “the possibility of doing basically any thing” in his adopted country.

Spreading His Wings Pépin took that possibility and ran with it. After less than a year of cooking at Le Pavillon, he was courted by the Kennedy fam ily—regulars at the restaurant—to become the White House chef. He turned down the offer—he’d already

ABOVE LEFT Jacques Pépin, 86, calls himself a “quintessential American chef.”

RIGHT Pépin with his daughter, Claudine, who often appeared in his cooking shows and now works with him on various projects for the Jacques Pépin Foundation.

Out on the

The article’s author rides on a bay mare named Suede, amid a lush meadow and the snow-clad peaks bordering Yosemite.

Roam or herd cattle at the sixthgeneration Hunewill Ranch in California’s Eastern Sierras. It makes for a glorious riding vacation you won’t soon forget

WRITTEN BY David Coulson PHOTOGRAPHED BY Maria Coulson

While a journal ism professor at the University of Wyoming when I wore a younger man’s clothes, I became close friends with a bowlegged, hardheaded cowboy. Seeing us together on the streets of Laramie, folks would holler, “Here comes the cowboy and the profes sor.” My city slicker self had never ridden a horse, much less herded a cow, before meeting the legendary cowboy. Since then, I have saddled many a cow pony and earned my spurs in spirited roundups across five states with him.

My first wrangling match was on a blustery, bitterly cold, snow-spit

LEFT Four generations of the Hunewill family at their California guest ranch.

BELOW Wranglers work together to guide wayward calves back to their herd.

ting day in early June on the Laramie high plateau. Astride a high-octane mustang, I stared out at the swarm of horns, pounding hooves, and hind ends of rust-col ored cattle ramrodded by the legend. When the lead cow abruptly bolted toward open range, the champion pro rodeo bronc rider, anticipating the move, intercepted her with the aptitude of an NFL defensive back.

Whereas I had a cowpoke com padre to make me muscle sore and saddle savvy, the best path for most greenhorns hell bent for leather to rope and ride like a true buckaroo is to bunk at a dude ranch. Through the years the dude ranch concept has evolved into more types of guest ranches than wrinkles on a Brahman bull. There are working ranches, resort ranches, execu tive-retreat ranches, and those with scarcely a horse, a cow, or a goat

to their name. Ranches for hard headed and weak-minded wannabe cowpunchers where every waking moment is spent wrestling a steer or guzzling a beer.

Ranch for the Ages Western cities are a short drive and a century removed from dude ranches with herds of cows instead of maddening crowds. Evoking images of the vast expanses of Wyoming and Montana, often over looked is the rich, guest ranch tra dition in California, exemplified by the Hunewill Ranch. Nestled in a cleft on the eastern slope of the Sierras at 6,500 feet in the Bridgeport Valley, its open meadow spreads out like a green mantle below snow-crusted crags border ing Yosemite.

The family-owned and -oper ated 4,500-acre ranch has run cat tle since the Civil War and hosted guests since the Great Depression. It boasts a string of 160 horses you can ride at a lope and 1,000 head of cattle you can herd on horseback— unlike most of today’s dude ranches that are more resort than rawhide. At the Circle H, the cowboy life is for real. Guests are treated with courtesy, not coddled like delicate porcelain.

Riding alongside affable and self-assured members of the ranch’s fifth and sixth generations, one can almost visualize their ancestors reflected in their faces. Ancestry and legacy are foremost in their minds. “What makes all the effort worthwhile is the family,” said 86-year-old matriarch Jan Hunewill. “Why else do it? You want to pass it on to the next generation.” And generations of guests returning year after year develop a kinship with the deeply rooted family.

“The older generation appreciates the energy, new ideas, and tech sav

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Corrections: In the story “Hidden Gems

Among the Mountains” that appeared in the September issue, a photo caption mis identified the winery shown on the opening page. It is the Montaluce Winery and Restaurant. American Essence regrets the error.

Quiz Answers (pg. 63)

Memorial Day mourns those who have died. Veterans Day honors all military personnel, past and present.

2.

With a little over 40,000

the U.S. Coast Guard is about five times larger than the newly-created Space Force.

from post-trau

a traumatic brain injury,

depression.

4.

article in a Chicago-based newspaper pub lished near the end of the war. The Tuskegee Airmen still had a lower loss record than most other fighter groups, however.

to

5. Poppy. In late 1918, Professor Moina Michael campaigned to establish the poppy as a remem brance symbol after reading fallen soldier John McCrae’s famous poem on that subject.

6. Sacred. “The Sacred Twenty” delivered care on battlefields and served as leaders in hospi tals around the world, implementing programs to improve training, education, and medical conditions.

7. Armistice. The ceasefire between Allied and German forces marked the end of “the war to end all wars.” In 1947, the event was extended to cele brate all veterans.

8. B. The Medal of Honor was awarded 1,523 times during the Civil War, comprising about 40 percent of the total number. The first award pre sentation took place in 1863.

9. D. While Vonnegut, Heller, and Jones all based their novels (at least loosely) on their experiences serving in World War II, Hemingway’s is based on his service in the Spanish Civil War.

10. B. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 240,329 World War II vets were alive in September 2021. Almost 250 vets die each day. It is estimated that by 2032, they will be gone.

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