Word: geisert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HAYSTACK, by Bonnie and Arthur Geisert (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95), is a prize: a fascinating, beautifully drawn progression of Midwestern farmscapes showing the yearly building and slow consumption of an enormous, barn-sized haystack. Hay in a big field is cut with a tractor and sickle bar, then raked into windrows and stacked with a hydraulic lift and pitchforks. The great hay pile then serves as both food and shelter, first for cattle, then for pigs, through the long winter. There's no preaching, but important lessons are learned about work and weather, and how life might seem in the vast...