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History: Farmers would line the streets for blocks as the sketch and the photograph from the 1960's depicts. The cane trucks and their drivers would await their turn at the syrup mill to be unloaded. Afterwards, they return to the fields for yet another load of sugarcane.


cutting cane After Hours: Friday and Saturday nights were always a special time for the Steen children. It was a time they could go to the Mill to visit their Dad and stay there very late with him while he worked the long hours demanded of him by Grinding Season. Charley Steen III, remembers once there, weekend or weekday, the fun they had when they would get to do special projects with their father. A special treat would come hours after they had returned home. Albert Steen would come home in the wee hours of the morning, every morning, and count heads (because there were always friends over in the Steen's household.) He headed out once again to Harry Bohrer's Restaurant in Abbeville to pick up hamburgers or combination sandwiches. Once home, he would wake all the children up and they would run and climb into their parents bed where they all had sandwiches together and quality time.


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