A newspaper man himself, Slokum published the groups first four-page newsletter that eventually became The Gleaner, a "large and influential farm journal".
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They decided to use the "Gleaner" name for their radically redesigned grain harvesting machine based on inspiration from "The Gleaners", a famous 1857 painting by Jean-François Millet.
In 1997, the Dear family sold The Gleaner and other media holdings to the A. H. Belo Corp., a Texas media company that owns The Dallas Morning News.
The Gleaner, as it's called locally, is part of Brunswick News Inc., which is privately owned by James K. Irving.
It was serialised in The Gleaner (Kingston) and published in paperback by Peepal Tree Press in 2003 to strongly positive and appreciative reviews; two such are reproduced in the second, annotated edition (2009), and half-a-dozen are linked through the Peepal Tree website.