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| Introduction: Small Towns, Of Thee We Sing | 3 | |
| Pt. I | The Formative Years, 1790-1900 | 13 |
| "The Economic Base" from The Urban Frontier | 18 | |
| "It Answers Well for a Village" from Sugar Creek | 24 | |
| Selections from The Autobiography of Mark Twain | 34 | |
| "A Private Lesson from a Bulldog" from The Hoosier School-Master | 40 | |
| "Railroad Towns" from Plains Country Towns | 47 | |
| "A 'Good Fellow's' Wife" from Main-Travelled Roads | 55 | |
| Pt. II | Main Street Ascendant, 1890-1930 | 83 |
| "Belonging to the Community" from Main Street on the Middle Border | 86 | |
| "The Hired Girls" from My Antonia | 116 | |
| Selections from The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay | 124 | |
| "The Budding of Art" from The Age of Indiscretion | 131 | |
| "Storm" from Not Without Laughter | 145 | |
| Excerpt from Main Street | 153 | |
| Selections from Spoon River Anthology | 166 | |
| Excerpt from Poor White | 171 | |
| "The Resurrection" from Midland Magazine | 180 | |
| Excerpt from A Peculiar Treasure | 185 | |
| "Inventions Re-making Leisure" from Middletown | 199 | |
| Pt. III | Depression, War, and Resurgence, 1930-60 | 213 |
| "Growth Up in Clear Lake," personal reminiscence | 217 | |
| "Compromise and Its Limits" from Main Street in Crisis | 232 | |
| Poems from various collections | 248 | |
| "The Last Picture Show" from Main Street Blues | 260 | |
| "Nothing Happened" from Blooming | 286 | |
| Pt. IV | Crisis on Main Street, 1960-90 | 301 |
| Selections from Alliance, Illinois | 307 | |
| "Quietly Thinking Over Things at Christmas" from Letters from the Country | 323 | |
| Selections from poems from the sangamon | 330 | |
| "If the Home Team Doesn't Win" from The Decline of Rural Minnesota | 340 | |
| "Sumus Quod Sumus" from Lake Wobegon Days | 349 | |
| "Hardball" from Grass Fires | 359 | |
| "Two-Speed" from Light in the Crossing | 364 | |
| Pt. V | From Farm Crisis to the Present | 375 |
| "Decline and Denial" from Broken Heartland | 379 | |
| "On the Cutting Edge: Changes in Midwestern Meatpacking Communities" | 390 | |
| "Village Character: The Pioneer Store" from Winter Book | 401 | |
| "A Broken Heartland" from U.S. News and World Report | 406 | |
| "Business First and Always" from Rethinking Home | 412 | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 429 | |
| Credits | 433 | |
| About the Editors | 437 |
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Michael Mazes
reviewed A Place Called Home: Writings on the Midwestern Small Town on June 04, 2016 A Place Called Home: Writings on the Midwestern Small Town
This book reminds me of a conversation I had with my (engineer) husband about an assignment for my Current Issues in Mormonism class (for which class I read this book). The instructions said to dig deep, past the obvious answers. His response was, "why do you have to dig past the obvious answers? They are obvious because they are right! You go past that, you venture into made-up territory! Is she asking you to make up answers?"
I didn't really like this book. Apparently, I am not cut out to be a feminist or a religious study major.
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