Word: homesteads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coarse, grasping Southerner, bellowing his frustration at not being able to seize his family homestead, halts in his tirade long enough to realize that he is talking to an empty room--empty, that is, except for the coffin containing his recently deceased aunt, to whom he kowtowed for years in hopes of getting his way. He turns to go and shouts, "You hateful old woman! I never liked...
Hearing that an expressway was to pass close by, they bought another house last September and put the old homestead on the market. But they quickly repented. "That is where half my life has been spent," he says, "and where my various pets are buried. Everything kind of spreads out from there." Now the new house is for sale, and he and Merula are comforting themselves with a wry, Guinness-style logic: "We're going to be so old and blind and deaf by the time the road gets there that maybe we won't notice it." Old age seems...
...oldest document in the exhibition is a 1775 proclamation by King George III urging the colonies to engage in "Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition." Other graphic entreaties were more persuasive. One from 1880 exhorts settlers to move into "Indian Territory, That Garden of the World, Open for Homestead." A health campaign from the 1940s warns, "Syphilis Keep Out!" Meanwhile, another broadside urges Americans to eat a balanced diet to "Make America Strong...