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In 1974 the rural mail carrier drove his own car, bought his own gas, and was paid by the measured mile and the counted box rather than by…
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In 1964 the music in an ordinary American house was still, to a surprising degree, music that somebody in the house made.
There was a harmonica in a…
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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…