Small Town Life
Sunday, October 26th, 2008
High winds blow unobstructed over the prairies and shake the suburban houses built on the outskirts to the foundations. The farm houses that have withstood the westerly winds coming down unbroken from the mountains for a century or more are weathering another autumn. White-washed and worn, the sturdier structures were built with farm hands and passed down through generations to present day, today, an afternoon wrought with strong atumnal gales separting the weakest leaves from their branches.
Rural living has changed much in the last 20 years, but its basic conceits have stayed central. Small towns in American culture are thought to be inviting places where the people have simple aspirations, high moral standards and deep religious beliefs. The chosen profession is farming, so many of the inhabitants are people of the land that produce crops as a living and to serve the needs of others, only taking a small portion for themselves so that their own families can grow and prosper. (more…)
