Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...edge of the sprawling metropolitan area formed by New York City and its neighboring Nassau County suburbs. To keep the developers from obliterating Suffolk's rural character, the citizens of the county have decided to try something new: buying not the farm land but the farmer's right to sell his acreage to developers. That will cost money, but not as much as buying the land outright. If a farm is worth, say, $6,000 per acre to a developer but only $1,500 per acre to a farmer, the county will pay the difference...
Determined at last to leave him, she announced that she was staying at Haugsetvolden, a farm where they had been visiting. Karl didn't argue--he immediately sold her to the farmer for three hundred kroner, and disappeared for good. Anna stayed at Haugsetvolden the rest of her life, a virtual slave...
Anna's picture of life on Haugsetvolden is colorful between grim scenes of starvation and cold. Eccentric rustics, of a sort peculiar to rural isolation, make up her little family. Old-Johan, the farmer's half-brother, almost dies of a snake bite that he is too reclusive to mention. A simple woman named Jenny destroys Anna's cabin when she takes seriously someone's joke that "it ought to be burned down...
Says John Wagner, a farmer from Sandwich, Ill.: "I didn't think it would take very long to get all the kinds there are." Now, seven years later, Wagner has acquired 500 pieces, and is still collecting...
...priced and under high-pressure. If it is not a knockout the media has been touting, it is still a fine film, both very graphic and very suggestive. A lot of it was there for the picking: It is difficult not to move an audience with footage of a farmer pointing out the rubble which had been his house and the graves which had been his family. And if there had been any pretense of objectivity in the film, it would have been clear that the way Wait Rostow's segments are edited are pretty clearly worthy of the lawsuit...