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Tables of Contents for A Place Called Home
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction Small Towns, Of Thee We Sing
3
10
Part I: The Formative Years, 1790--1900
13
70
``The Economic Base'' from The Urban Frontier
18
6
Richard C. Wade
``It Answers Well for a Village'' from Sugar Creek
24
10
John Mack Faragher
selections from The Autobiography of Mark Twain
34
6
Mark Twain
``A Private Lesson from a Bulldog'' from The Hoosier School-Master
40
7
Edward Eggleston
``Railroad Towns'' from Plains Country Towns
47
8
John C. Hudson
``A 'Good Fellow's' Wife'' from Main-Travelled Roads
55
28
Hamlin Garland
Part II: Main Street Ascendant, 1890--1930
83
130
``Belonging to the Community'' from Main Street on the Middle Border
86
30
Lewis E. Atherton
``The Hired Girls'' from My Antonia
116
8
Willa Cather
selections from The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay
124
7
Vachel Lindsay
``The Budding of Art'' from The Age of Indiscretion
131
14
Clyde Brion Davis
``Storm'' from Not Without Laughter
145
8
Langston Hughes
excerpt from Main Street
153
13
Sinclair Lewis
selections from Spoon River Anthology
166
5
Edgar Lee Masters
excerpt from Poor White
171
9
Sherwood Anderson
``The Resurrection'' from Midland Magazine
180
5
Ruth Suckow
excerpt from A Peculiar Treasure
185
14
Edna Ferber
``Inventions Re-making Leisure'' from Middletown
199
14
Robert S. Lynd
Helen Merrell Lynd
Part III: Depression, War, and Resurgence, 1930--60
213
88
``Growing Up in Clear Lake,'' personal reminiscence
217
15
Alan R. Woolworth
``Compromise and Its Limits'' from Main Street in Crisis
232
16
Catherine McNicol Stock
poems from various collections
248
12
William Kloefkorn
``The Last Picture Show'' from Main Street Blues
260
26
Richard O. Davies
``Nothing Happened'' from Blooming
286
15
Susan Allen Toth
Part IV: Crisis on Main Street, 1960--90
301
74
selections from Alliance, Illinois
307
16
Dave Etter
``Quietly Thinking Over Things at Christmas'' from Letters from the Country
323
7
Carol Bly
selections from poems from the sangamon
330
10
John Knoepfle
``If the Home Team Doesn't Win'' from The Decline of Rural Minnesota
340
9
Joseph A. Amato
John W. Meyer
``Sumus Quod Sumus'' from Lake Wobegon Days
349
10
Garrison Keillor
``Hardball'' from Grass Fires
359
5
Dan Gerber
``Two-Speed'' from Light in the Crossing
364
11
Kent Meyers
Part V: From Farm Crisis to the Present
375
54
``Decline and Denial'' from Broken Heartland
379
11
Osha Gray Davidson
``On the Cutting Edge: Changes in Midwestern Meatpacking Communities''
390
11
Donald D. Stull
``Village Character: The Pioneer Store'' from Winter Book
401
5
Norbert Blei
``A Broken Heartland'' from U.S. News and World Report
406
6
Jeff Glasser
``Business First and Always'' from Rethinking Home
412
17
Joseph A. Amato
Suggestions for Further Reading
429
4
Credits
433
4
About the Editors
437