He asks her a question about this year's apple harvest, and she answers.

Even the apple harvest in 194- was considered a part of the war effort.

With the apple harvest in full swing he is making it properly - and what a wonderful way of preserving apples through the winter.

"I'll be back before the apple harvest next fall," he promised.

In 1922, the Buckners built a large packing shed to protect their apple harvest.

Still, this year there was a good apple harvest, she said.

The apple harvest starts about Sept. 1 and lasts through October.

But in interviews here most of them seem committed to staying, at least through late summer, the beginning of the apple harvest.

View a video about the apple harvest on the Estate:

Only one of them, the September sculpture representing the apple harvest, is female.