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Bringing In The Hay A nostalgic history of agriculture's most romantic crop |
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Remember the good old hay stacking days?
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| Grandpa’s farm was the place to be – especially during hay season. The valley was filled with the pure sweet scent of alfalfa. Whirling gears of horse drawn mowing machines clattered a matchless rhapsody. Buck rakes and slips, pitchforks and derricks – oh those marvelous derricks – energy filled memories of wrestling jags atop fluffy stacks. And Grandma’s dinner for the hay crew. What a feast! What an era!
You can still swing on the hanging derrick cable. Chew one more drying stem. Relive the time in a flourish of black and white photos from history’s archives and more shot by the author in living color. Glimpse back to that wonderful, simple world. Remember how it was – or how it may have been – those delightful, carefree, childlike days we knew as Bringing In The Hay. |