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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…
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Four Materials Did Everything
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The kitchen of 1964 wrapped, lined, covered and separated its food with four things, and none of them was plastic.
A box…
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It Sat on the Counter and It Had a Lid That Did Not Seal
There was a box on the kitchen counter, a foot and a half wide,…
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It Was a Small Box Full of Other People's Handwriting
There was a box on the kitchen counter or in a cupboard, wooden or tin or plastic, about…
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In 1974 canning season was not a plan. It was something that happened to a household when ninety pounds of tomatoes ripened at once and had to be…
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In 1964 an American kitchen cabinet had a sheet-metal bin built into it holding twenty-five or fifty pounds of flour, and underneath the bin there was a sifter.…