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In 1964 every American community had a swimming hole with a name that appeared on no map, reached by a path through a pasture that no vehicle could…
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In 1964 the post office in a small American town might be one room inside somebody's store - a caged window, a wall of brass boxes with glass…
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In 1974 an American family's year had a gathering calendar in it that nobody had printed: greens in early spring, blackberries through July, grapes and elderberries in late…
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In 1964 a rural American school raised money by auctioning boxed suppers, and the thing being sold was not the food.
Each woman and girl packed a meal…
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In 1974 an American household that kept bees had four white boxes on concrete blocks along a fencerow, facing southeast, with a windbreak behind them.
The equipment was…
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There Was One Razor and It Lasted a Lifetime
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It was a single piece of steel, hollow-ground, hinged into a handle of bone, horn, celluloid or…