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Harvesting in Ciadoncha. 1991<br />
Photo Lucía Varona<br />
Parents enjoyed w<strong>at</strong>ching their children with the machines. Those were the times<br />
when Ciadoncha had a lot of life during the summers. The family joined together, the<br />
children played while their parents worked and the women took charge of having the<br />
food ready for when everyone would return from the field. More than once we planned a<br />
summer trip to Ciadoncha according to the d<strong>at</strong>e in which they would begin to harvest so<br />
as to not miss out on this event.<br />
Ángel Varona on the elands. 1992<br />
Photo Lucía Varona<br />
I did not live during the mechaniz<strong>at</strong>ion years, but I did particip<strong>at</strong>e in the<br />
intermedi<strong>at</strong>e years, before my husband’s family stopped working on the field. I was very<br />
impressed to see the older people as they swept the lands, trying to pick up all the grains<br />
they could. As I saw them do this I would ask myself, “Wh<strong>at</strong> is going on in their minds<br />
<strong>at</strong> this moment?” I remember th<strong>at</strong> they would remain se<strong>at</strong>ed there for a long while as<br />
they waited for the tractor to discharge. They would not say anything; they just remained<br />
looking <strong>at</strong> the grain, the sky, and the field. I never wanted to interrupt them and I now<br />
regret it because I would have liked to have been able to write about wh<strong>at</strong> they were<br />
thinking.<br />
Many of the most pleasing memories of some of the participants have to do with<br />
the livestock and the epoch wherein there was a lot of life in Ciadoncha. One remembers<br />
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