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...foundation of the Great American Salvage Co. In 1970 Israel, the son of a Manhattan attorney, left law school for flower power in Woodstock, N.Y. There he learned alternative life-styles, the necessity of making a living, and carpentry. He later settled on a hardscrabble cow farm in East Corinth, Vt., to raise what he calls "organic beef." But he could never pilot his vintage motorcycle past a pile of old junk without stopping. "I'd always been a collector," he says, "but never had enough money to collect the stuff everybody else was collecting. Nobody else wanted salvage then...
THIS PAST SUMMER, I embarked on a two-week journey into the South to visit my home-town. While Corinth, Miss. is not exactly my birthplace, it is the town where I grew up, established roots and have come to regard as home...
...years ago, however, I found that I no longer had a place I could call home. We moved away from Corinth, from town to town, until we ended up in Trenton, N.J. I had become thouroughly withdrawn, lonely, and friendless by that time. Mostly though, I was fearful--especially of the high crime rate...
After a few days in Tennessee, my mother and I took the final leg of the journey 10 years in the making. I was driving the car down Route 64 toward the Tennessee border, but missed the first turn into Corinth. But the back roads were somewhere in my memory, and I found myself near the public library...
...remembered Corinth as an ideal place, which it wasn't and isn't. But 10-year-old images weren't really ravaged when I returned...