Potato Harvest Schools Maine Teens In Hard Work

By DAVID SHARP, Associated Press, San Antonio Express-News: World
Wed, 10/01/2014 - 10:55pm

BLAINE, Maine (AP) — Many northern Maine high schools are empty just weeks after the arrival of students as teenagers trade warm classrooms for cold potato fields to haul in the fall harvest. The region that's home to roughly 50,000 acres of potato fields is clinging to the harvest break tradition in which hundreds of teen farmhands help get the potatoes into storage.

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