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A young man's horse and buggy did exactly what a car did for every generation after him, and the parallel is almost uncanny.
The rig was expensive, visible,…
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Spelling was taught as elimination, in public, as the ordinary method.
The class stood in a line along the wall. A child who missed a word sat down,…
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Drive the older farm country of the Midwest and you keep passing them without knowing it: a row of scruffy, thorny, badly shaped trees running dead straight along…
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A lot of American houses built between roughly 1900 and the 1930s have a room that makes no sense to a modern buyer. Upstairs, off a bedroom, there…
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There is one in a box in a lot of American attics: a wooden handle, a hood with two lenses in it, a sliding wire rack out front,…
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They come out of attics in paper envelopes with a drawing on the front, and inside is a folded mass of crackling tissue covered in printed lines, holes,…