My sweetheart was telling me when he grew up in rural Maine, school would start end of Aug, for about 3 weeks, then the elementary & high school actually closed for 3 weeks, so the kids could all help during harvesting.
When I was 3 yrs old I talked incessantly about birds, chickens, pigeons, farms, horses, goats, etc. My parents couldn't understand it, we lived in suburbia & had only seen such animals & places on our tiny, old TV that only got 3 stations. I asked them daily, when can we go visit some chickens...