Who is Dell?

 The characterization of Dell, the farmhand is based on, in part, on a tough old buzzard named Dell who worked on the Mason farm back in the fifties and early sixties. Dell was the wisest uneducated man I ever met. Not in book smart ways but in the ways of life, nature, animals and people. Looking back I wish I would have captured every utterance and wry humor that he tossed my way from day to day.