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For a long stretch of American history, eighth grade was not a step on the way to anything. It was where school ended.
And it ended with an…
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Every summer, for several decades, a brown tent went up on a vacant lot in thousands of American towns and the town got a week of lectures.
Not…
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Every American town of any size had a livery stable near its middle, and it was a paid service business rather than a barn somebody let people use.…
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Somewhere in the fence line of an old farm in the stony parts of this country there is a pile of rocks, or a wall of them, and…
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Pick up a nineteenth or early twentieth century American family Bible and the first thing you notice is that it is enormous - heavy, thick, frequently with a…
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There is an object that turns up constantly on Midwestern farms and almost nobody can identify it. A short cylinder of unglazed red clay, four or six inches…