Developers put some teeth into their apple press. Photo courtesy of Anderson Island Historical Society The humble potato harvester, developed in the 1950s to scoop potatoes from the fields and into waiting trucks, has found other purposes. The community of Anderson Island in Washington State’s Puget Sound has put an outdated potato harvester to a different use—as an apple press. For the past three decades, the harvester/cider press has earned itself a place in the annals of the island’s Apple Squeeze. Lucy Stephenson, Anderson Island Historical Society’s information person, said that islanders Chet Palmer and Bob Ericke engineered a one-time […]