Freshly picked Lapin cherries fill boxes at Bush's Jubilee Orchards. (Daily Inter Lake FILE)
August 10, 2017
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“Come on, Bill,” Clarice Bush hollers back to her husband as she climbs a hill through her cherry orchard. Bill, cane in hand, follows behind until he meets his wife beneath the boughs of a Lapin cherry tree, weighed down heavily by clumps of the plump, maroon fruit.