Introduction: Small Towns, Of Thee We Sing -- Pt. I.The Formative
Years, 1790-1900 -- "The Economic Base" from The Urban Frontier
/Richard C. Wade -- "It Answers Well for a Village" from Sugar Creek
/John Mack Faragher -- Selections from The Autobiography of Mark
Twain /Mark Twain -- "A Private Lesson from a Bulldog" from The
Hoosier School-Master /Edward Eggleston -- "Railroad Towns" from
Plains Country Towns /John C. Hudson -- "A 'Good Fellow's' Wife" from
Main-Travelled Roads /Hamlin Garland -- Pt. II.Main Street Ascendant,
1890-1930 -- "Belonging to the Community" from Main Street on the
Middle Border /Lewis E. Atherton -- "The Hired Girls" from My Antonia
/Willa Cather -- Selections from The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay /Vachel
Lindsay -- "The Budding of Art" from The Age of Indiscretion /Clyde
Brion Davis -- "Storm" from Not Without Laughter /Langston Hughes --
Excerpt from Main Street /Sinclair Lewis -- Selections from Spoon
River Anthology /Edgar Lee Masters -- Excerpt from Poor White
/Sherwood Anderson -- "The Resurrection" from Midland Magazine /Ruth
Suckow -- Excerpt from A Peculiar Treasure /Edna Ferber --
"Inventions Re-making Leisure" from Middletown /Robert S. Lynd and
Helen Merrell Lynd -- Pt. III.Depression, War, and Resurgence,
1930-60 -- "Growth Up in Clear Lake," personal reminiscence /Alan R.
Woolworth -- "Compromise and Its Limits" from Main Street in Crisis
/Catherine McNicol Stock -- Poems from various collections /William
Kloefkorn -- "The Last Picture Show" from Main Street Blues /Richard
O. Davies -- "Nothing Happened" from Blooming /Susan Allen Toth --
Pt. IV.Crisis on Main Street, 1960-90 -- Selections from Alliance,
Illinois /Dave Etter -- "Quietly Thinking Over Things at Christmas"
from Letters from the Country /Carol Bly -- Selections from poems
from the sangamon /John Knoepfle -- "If the Home Team Doesn't Win"
from The Decline of Rural Minnesota /Joseph A. Amato and John W.
Meyer -- "Sumus Quod Sumus" from Lake Wobegon Days /Garrison Keillor
-- "Hardball" from Grass Fires /Dan Gerber -- "Two-Speed" from Light
in the Crossing /Kent Meyers -- Pt. V.From Farm Crisis to the Present
-- "Decline and Denial" from Broken Heartland /Osha Gray Davidson --
"On the Cutting Edge: Changes in Midwestern Meatpacking Communities"
/Donald D. Stull -- "Village Character: The Pioneer Store" from
Winter Book /Norbert Blei -- "A Broken Heartland" from U.S. News and
World Report /Jeff Glasser -- "Business First and Always" from
Rethinking Home /Joseph A. Amato.
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