“I’ve been privileged to do a lot of things,” said Pauline Williman. “This is paying back … the Lord told us to feed his people. I’ve had many blessings; I’ll try to feed people in return.”

Patroon Land Farm in Knox has helped feed hundreds-of-thousands of hungry people. Its mission will endure even though its owner, Pauline Williman, has died. 

History speaks to us in many ways — from the newly-painted clapboard of a one-room rural school and from the memories shared from the long-ago pupils, now aged but still shaped by their earliest learning.