Huckleberries, blackberries, apples, pears, quince: members of the garden club scholarship fund have been trekking all summer from backyard to orchard, from garden to bramble, from low ground to high looking for the fruit we will preserve and sell at the annual Dance Palace Christmas Craft Fair. 

Every year is different. Has there been a huckleberry sighting while the blackberries are still bursting? Was someone’s entire crop of plums purloined by four legged rascals? Did…