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Jews in the Land of Disney: Last of the Jewish Rednecks fills father s shoes in the orange industry
 
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Laurence Morrell s father passed away right after he graduated from Emory University in Atlanta. I came back home immediately and had to take over the running of my father s business. My brother was working for Martin-Marietta, so he and my mother would show me where the groves were. Together, we took over the management of 550 acres of citrus. It was mid-summer, the weeds were crotch high, and the heat/humidity was intense that summer, Morrell recalled.
Morrell learned about the groves from the ground up. I worked alongside with our hand-crew - hoeing trees, fertilizing the. ....

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