Farm Life This colorful piece of needlework embroidered by Mehitable Starkey of Boston around 1760 portrays three farmers harvesting grain. A woman at the center holds up a sickle, while a man at her right cuts the wheat and a man at her left bundles it. The frontier environment is suggested by the wild game running about the field at the bottom. Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY