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There is a figure in American farm memory that has no modern equivalent at all, and that is precisely why he is difficult to explain.
The hired man…
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In 1964 the planting right against the door of a house was flowers, and it was kept strictly separate from the vegetables, which were out back in rows.…
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In a great many American families there is one photograph that is older than all the others and physically different from them. It is small, it is on…
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They turn up at estate sales and in historical societies, and they are among the most informative documents in American local history: enormous bound ledgers, a foot tall,…
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In 1964 dinner on the ground meant exactly that. Long boards across sawhorses, or permanent plank tables built under the trees, or cloths spread on the grass -…
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In 1964 a grape arbor was a built structure before it was a plant - posts set in the ground, an overhead frame, cross members or wire for…