Emily Dickinson is famed for the gingerbread she would lower from her bedroom window down to the neighbor kids in a basket tied with twine. But few know that in 1856 the poet took Second Place in the Rye and Indian Bread Competition at the annual Cattle Show on the town common. Full disclosure? Her sister, Lavinia, was one of the judges.
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