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A hole in the road with bars across it, and the cows will not cross.
A fence stops an animal and also stops a vehicle. A gate…
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The American chestnut was one of the dominant trees of the eastern forest, and within a few decades essentially every mature one was dead.
The wood was exceptional…
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Every American town on a railroad had a depot, and essentially everything that entered or left the town went through it - people, freight, mail, parcels, newspapers, telegrams,…
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In 1974 the surviving American curb markets were municipal facilities - a designated stretch of street, a covered shed or a market house, built by the city, operated…
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In 1974 the crop duster was the most dramatic thing in American agriculture. An aircraft working a few feet above a crop, turning at the end of every…
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In 1974 a great many American households kept two separate pieces of ground. The garden fed the family. The truck patch - an acre or two - was…