America became truly a land of plenty. The hard-working settlers harvested a bountiful variety of foods to feed a growing nation. Here the farmer and his family haul to town a wagon overflowing with corn, baskets of apples and containers of milk. My mother remembers doing this very thing when she was young. Overhead, pigeons have found their home atop the grain elevator, a sturdy monument to the rich soil and the people who toil on it.