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One participant who has been a farmer all his life and who today gives his land so
that it can be worked on, told me: “So you would work in the field 95 percent of the year.
There was work every day because if you weren’t working the lands, you were taking
care of the vineyards. Before there were a lot of vineyards in Ciadoncha. One could say
that 10 percent of the land was vineyards; the rest was sown of cereals such as wheat, oat
and barley.”
Photo exposed in the City Hall of Ciadoncha.
They also told me that there were people in Ciadoncha that reap with a sickle.
When this was said, one of the participants looked at his hands and told me: “Here you
have a sign”. There was a scar on the finger of his left hand. “I was reaping when I
became distracted and Zas! Instinctively I pressed what had lifted and it remained like
this. We all would go to the fields to help. There was work for everyone.” “I believe it”
added another participant. Men, women and children helped, each with what they could.
Ready to mow. 60s
Photo provided by Arcadio Varona
The participants explained to me that the most tranquil months were when it
snowed or when the fields were very wet. Nothing could be done in the lands because
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