We Who Plowed the Prairies
Pastoral visions of farmwork don’t square with the reality of what it means to live in rural areas today.
Photo by Margeaux Walter. Illustration by Rose Wong.
Golden bales of hay towered twenty feet or more above the crowd’s heads as protesting farmers rumbled up the Champs Élysées in their tractors. The Eiffel Tower was partially left in the shade, though its iron lattice peeked out from the side of the haystacks, as if catching a furtive glance at the peasants marauding […]
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