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There is a particular kind of pocket watch that turns up in American families. Large, heavy, open-faced with no cover, a plain white enamel dial with big bold…
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Out in the yard, twenty or thirty steps from the back door, there was a mound.
It had a slanting door set into one side, usually wood, sometimes…
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The object is unmistakable. A wooden bucket bound with metal hoops, a cast iron frame across the top with a crank handle and a geared head, and inside…
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Somewhere in a great many American families there is a quilt, an apron, a child's dress or a set of curtains made out of printed cotton with a…
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It looks like a tennis racket made by somebody who had only heard a description of one. A long handle, usually wood or twisted wire, opening into a…
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In 1964 the sound of rain on a tin roof was simply the ordinary experience of being inside a cheaply built American building.
It was not tin. It…