David Montgomery: His name is lost to history, not that history was paying attention. Who cared about a bean farmer, let's say, from a remote corner of Guatemala?
You can picture him, maybe 30 years ago, this bean farmer, this Founding Father, scratching the earth like so many others in a little place called Ipala. He's hoping for a better year. His mind ventures beyond the horizon, but the view from his hoe is filled by the local landmark, a dead volcano.
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