Word: dogtown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early in this text-&-camera picture of contemporary life in the cotton States. Erskine Caldwell observes: "The South has always been shoved around like a country cousin. It buys mill-ends and wears hand-me-downs. ... It is that dogtown on the other side of the railroad tracks that smells so badly every time I he wind changes." Mindful of the "bad smells"* that have come from the South recently, and with an avowed pro-underdog bias. Author Caldwell and Photographer Bourke-White went down to look things over. After a year and a half of investigation they returned with...
...boulders of Dogtown Common, part of Cape Ann near Gloucester, Mass., lately appeared carved legends such as "Prosperity Follows Service," "Be Clean," "Help Mother," "Get a Job," "Save." When one such marking, the simple number "31,"* was carved on a boulder on the property of Mrs. Leila Webster Adams, widow of Manhattan Architect Rayne Adams and descendant of early settlers, she rose up in protest, revealed the carver to be Roger Ward Babson, famed statistician. Explained Statistician Babson, whose family settled on Cape Ann in 1628: "The work I'm doing is part of an educational plan . . . which will...