Green fields

摘要

IT WAS THE 1930S, and'rural people clung to the land as if it were a part of them, as integral as bone or sinew. But the land | betrayed them—or they betrayed it, depending on the telling of history. In the black-and-white portraits of the time, dismay is palpable, grooves of anxiety worn deep around the eyes. In scattered fields throughout the country, farmers took the stitching out of the soil and turned the earth upside down, so the old saying goes.