About the Picture

"To shoot the 2005 cover, Assumption professors Paul Shields (above) and Mike Land recruited Pineapple Butt, a rooster residing at Heifer Project's Overlook Farm in Rutland, MA. A special thanks to Heather Souare of Heifer Project for making the photo shoot possible."

"I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbours up."

– Henry David Thoreau