My brother checks out a Farmall during our annual Thanksgiving rite of scamper-on-the-tractors.
At an antique tractor show last fall, I had the chance to drive an old restored Farmall tractor in the event’s short parade of vehicles — an International Harvester Farmall B Cub. What I know of these machines has been introduced to me [...]
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This family bleeds Farmall red
Posted in essay excerpts, farming, tagged deere, family, farmall on May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Bees Through the Looking Glass, part 2
Posted in bees, essay excerpts, tagged bees, museum, natural history on May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Note: This post is part of excerpts from an essay I wrote in 2007, part of my continuing experiment. Here’s part one.
Most days in the winter, when the daylight hours are shortened by the tilt of the Earth, I steal up to my 6th floor museum office and turn on my computer in the dark. [...]
Bees Through the Looking Glass
Posted in bees, essay excerpts, tagged bees, death, essay, hive, museum on May 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The bees at the museum where I work began to die last fall. More generally, bees were struggling nationwide (and may be still, though it’s early in the spring and hard to tell).
My writings about the museum bees became a full-length essay called “Undertaking at Dawn” that recently won me [...]
