NYTimes: City Slickers Take to the Crops, With Song
The Times ran this piece in May 2010 about Sylvester Manor, on Shelter Island, and the experiment I was running: bring back the old practice of singing while you work, and see what happens when a city volunteer shows up ready to weed carrots.
Kathryn Shattuck caught the farm at a moment when the CSA movement was growing fast. What she saw was that work songs were not a museum piece. They were a practical tool that helped people get through a long day of physical work. A rhythm for the body, a reason for the voice, company for the mind.
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By Kathryn Shattuck. Published in The New York Times, May 27, 2010.