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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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There is a tool hanging in a great many American barns and garages that looks like it ought to be simple and is not. A long flexible steel…
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In 1964 the American berry harvest was brought in substantially by children.
They were paid piece rate - so much per carrier or crate - which means income…
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In 1964 clearing new ground was still something a determined American household might undertake - bringing woodland, brush or scrub into cultivation for the first time, over several…
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Long-haul trucking in 1975 was at a peculiar high point. The interstate system was essentially complete, freight was moving by road in volumes it never had before, and…
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The logging camp was a self-contained settlement built where the timber was, moved when the timber ran out, and run on the understanding that everybody there had come…