In the state of Maine they closed schools for the week of the potato harvest. In Illinois they hired teenagers in the summer to detassel the corn. In rural Egypt children picked weevils off the cotton and then picked the cotton itself. In Cairo, the young minded sidewalk stalls outside the movie theaters on Talat Harb Street, selling empty change purses and empty plastic shopping bags. That was about it for them, no money to buy nothing.
©David Melody