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There was a box beside the kitchen stove, and keeping it full was the first real job most American children were given.
It held split wood cut…
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Small towns fielded their own adult baseball teams, and the team carried the town's name in a literal sense - a result against the next town over…
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Winter used to make the roads better. That single fact is almost impossible to believe now, and nothing else about sleighs makes sense without it.
An unpaved road…
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Every summer, for several decades, a brown tent went up on a vacant lot in thousands of American towns and the town got a week of lectures.
Not…
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Sorghum syrup was the only sweetener an American farm could produce without buying a single thing.
Sweet sorghum is a tall annual grass that grows where sugar cane…
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Houses built before the twentieth century frequently had one small closet or none at all, and the reason is not that people were deprived of storage. It is…