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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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