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In 1974 the tree rows standing on the north and west sides of American plains farmsteads were mature, deliberate and doing five jobs at once.
They were not…
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In 1974 a twenty-year class reunion existed to answer a question that had no other answer: what had happened to the eighty people you spent twelve years of…
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In 1974 a blizzard on an American farm arrived with whatever notice a radio station happened to give, and then it did two things at once.
One was…
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In 1974 the want ads were the labour market, the rental market and the used car market, in agate type, in columns too tight to track by eye.…
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It Arrived Every Autumn and Cost Almost Nothing
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Sometime in the fall a thin paper book appeared - bought for a few cents at the feed…
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It Arrived in December and Nobody Bought It
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Sometime in the last weeks of the year, calendars began turning up. The bank handed one across the…