Corn Detasseling: A summer rite of passage

For many teenagers growing up in America’s Midwest their first summer job is often not working at some fast food restaurant or other service-related employment, but instead detasseling corn.
The neat thing about corn detasseling was that you didn’t have to be 16 to work, but instead only 13.
Back in the summer of 1971, my friend [...]

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