Colorful Country CHARACTERS
Mar 27, 2020
2 minutes
Article by David R. Lewis
Illustrations by Wayne Stroot
I grew up in a small farming community in the flatlands of central Illinois. Beginning about age 12, I spent my summers working for Flavel Horner, a sunburned flatlander who baled hay for a living. Flavel owned his own baler — a Massey Ferguson, if I recall correctly. It pumped out small, rectangular, twine-wrapped bales of 70 to 100 pounds,
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