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The Sod Of Music

It's a safe bet that few took the time, this past weekend at the Panorama Music Festival, to consider the grass beneath their feet.
Attendees during the Panorama Music Festival at Randall's Island on July 29, 2017 in New York City. / Rebecca Smeyne / Getty Images

"I mean, look at this. Just look at this," said Scott Geiger, an account manager for DeLea & Sons Sod Farm. "Can't you envision yourself throwing a football right here? Or setting up a lawn chair and just sitting? It doesn't get any better than this."

He was right. On a Friday afternoon earlier this summer, it was as if the world had momentarily become a Rothko painting, nothing but blue sky levitating over emerald grass for as far as the eye could see. The pixie cut of the agricultural world, sod doesn't sway like barley or grow tall like

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