The Main Things

From: The Texas Observer | Date: December 20, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

To be all about wood is to be all about loss, and Camden is on the wrong end of the equation. It lays itself bare every day of the year and slowly disintegrates as the gated civilizations that it nourishes vote Republican, drive SUVs, and flourish. On its better days, it just stagnates, leaving the cicadas to sing undisturbed dirges to that bygone era of piano rags and populist orations.

In the Big Thicket of East Texas, where men still hunt deer with Walker hounds and rickety juke joints slowly decompose, a white wooden house sits atop a small hill. This truncated reincarnation of what was ...

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