My prize watermelon

My agricultural roots

Here I am, showing off my prize watermelon.  It was the year James Dean died and Elvis signed with RCA.  Rock Around the Clock.  Bobby socks and poodle skirts.  Disneyland opened, and Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine.  And I, in my first year of inhaling earth’s nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere, grew the world’s largest watermelon … yeah … that’s the ticket … the world’s LARGEST WATERMELON.  Yeah!