Fruit fan Sam Kirby, now 18, was about three when Peter Marbach photographed him. It’s taken a while, but Sam Kirby is getting over his embarrassment about what the Good Fruit Grower staff called “the dirty-faced pear boy” photo. When Sam Kirby was young, he would cringe when his parents proudly showed off the picture of him on the cover of the Good Fruit Grower. His mother, Carolyn, had it framed and hung it on the wall of their den. He was about three years old when the picture was taken at the Kirby orchard at Hood River, Oregon. He […]