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New research suggests that local farmer, Pat Gershon, still isn’t really sure how big an acre is.
“My family’s been farming on this Rhode Island land for five generations, and we still use the same measurements,” Gershon said, surveying his fields without any real comprehension of the units of distance which comprise them. “I always used to ask my Grandpappy Gershon how big an acre was. But he just never did tell me.”
According to sources, Gershon’s tractor measured speed in miles per hour, not acres per hour, which made it difficult to understand how many acres he traveled as he plowed his fields.
“I mean, an acre really could be anywhere between a square yard and a square mile,” Gershon continued, envious of how most people use common units like square feet or meters to measure two-dimensional distance. “I feel like an acre could maybe fit 50 rows of corn. But I wouldn’t be surprised if it was actually 100.”
At press time, a local sailor didn’t really know how fast a knot was.
