Milk, bread and a town's pulse

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: October 19, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Royal Ford is a member of the Globe staff covering New England. His e-mail address is ford(at sign)globe.com.

For this was the kitchen midden of all the civilization we knew. It gave us the most tantalizing glimpses into our neighbors' lives and our own . . . The town dump was our poetry and our history.

That's Wallace Stegner, almost talking in that wonderful cadence that was his alone. It pulses from the printed page like a resonant reading in some small town library. He is talking about his boyhood home, Whitemud, out in Saskatchewan. He is telling us that if we poke around our local dumps, ...

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