ALUMNI
Caring for
CRANBERRIES
By Jim Henry ‘75
Tabor alumni and their families before them helped develop the cranberry growing industry in Southeastern Massachusetts. To this day, the companies their families founded are among the world’s leading cranberry producers.
“Cranberries have been fascinating to me, my whole life,” says Chris Makepeace ’66. “Every year, it’s like starting all over, because of the weather.” He’s a board member and former president at Wareham, MAbased A.D. Makepeace Co., a company with 160 years in the cranberry industry. Some of its oldest cranberry bogs have been in production since 1878 according to Makepeace. The company says it’s the world’s largest cranberry producer, and one of the largest private landowners in Massachusetts, with around 14,000 acres, including bogs and the surround-
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