One warm, summer day on July 10th, 1777. Tyler, his father, and
Mr. Garson were farming outside their Rhode Island homes. Sud-
denly, the air started to get extremely hot. Tyler began to sweat.
The fertile soil started to harden. Tyler kept planting. It was begin-
ning to get dark. “Tyler, we need to go inside,” his father shouted
across the field. “Ok, he yelled back. Bye Mr. Garson.” Tyler ran to
his house.
Tyler had trouble sleeping that night. He was way
too hot. The next morning, the sun was even hotter. The crops
they had planted yesterday had withered! Tyler and his father
started to tear out the withered crops and replant new ones. Mr.
Garson had still not come out at that point. “I’ll go get Jim, you
keep planting,” Tyler’s father told him. Then he started to walk
over to Mr. Garson's house.
His fa-
ther came walking back with Mr. Garson. Tyler’s father and Mr.
Garson then started to help Tyler plant. By the end of the day,
they had filled the whole field with new crops. At the end of the
day, Mr. Garson invited Tyler and his father over for dinner. They
had biscuits and gravy. When Tyler and his father got home, Ty-
ler’s mother asked where they were. “We were at the Garson’s.
Mr. Garson invited us for dinner. Tyler slept well that night be-
cause he had adapted to the heat.
Mr. Garson was the first one to the field the next morning. He
stood there in awe. Every single crop they replanted the day be-
fore had withered. Tyler and his father came walking outside to
see Mr. Garson tearing out withered crops. Tyler exclaimed,
“Why do the crops keep withering!” “The heat is to unbearable.
The soil is hard and the crops can’t grow,” Mr. Garson replied. Ty-
ler thought for a moment. “Hey, he started to say. Why don’t we
give the crops extra water.” “That might work,” said his father.
That day, they watered the crops twice as much.
Once again, the crops were withered the next
morning. Tyler, his father, and Mr. Garson all set out to find a
cooler area to plant their crops. Everywhere they went was
scorching hot. By the end of the day, they made no progress. The
first day of search was unsuccessful.
The next day, they found a small woodland area
over a hill. In it was a lake with shady trees making the air cool
with a small hole in the roof of leaves for afternoon sun. They
went back home to get their tools and started planting around
the lake and prayed the crops would grow, because with no
crops the food was scarce means no food. They planted all day.
When they went back first thing in the morning, they found
the crops growing! Mr. Garson told his wife and Tyler told his
mother that they would be planting there. They continued to do
That. Tyler had a wife and 3 kids 20 years later. He lived in a
house he built right by the lake. He lived to be 86 years old. He
never moved out of that house.