Word: pinings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pine Bluff is...Actually there are no good things to say about Pine Bluff. Rand-McNally named it the worst city in the nation in 1988. ABC News even showed up to film a 20/20 segment. Those who decide to venture into the city anyway should be prepared for the omnipresent stench of the paper mill, the city's only industry...
...there is a parade of gestures. A tattoo parlor in Houston reports a 40% jump in business, mostly for military designs. A waitress in Rocky Hill, Conn., told her boss he could fire her if he liked, but she would not remove her red, white and blue ribbon. In Pine Bluff, Ark., Deborah Hurt has sent personal letters to nearly 400 fellow Arkansans serving in the gulf. "I had seven brothers; six were in the military, and four served in Vietnam," she says. "I saw what they came home to. I made a promise when I was 16 years...
...these kids living in a rustic time warp? Yes. Not far away from the Pine Grove schoolhouse sit two wooden outhouses and the old pickup Cal Phipps drives to school. He is only 13, but there is no school-bus service. Jordan -- nearby by Montana standards -- is the seat of Garfield County, 4,500 sq. mi., where the cattle outnumber the 1,600 humans and the flatlands are ribboned with cliffs called the Missouri Breaks. No one from Pine Grove in recent memory has ventured so far as Chicago for college, and Los Angeles might as well be Pluto...
...Pine Grove students know about Saddam Hussein, Milli Vanilli and crack? Not much. Do they care? No. "There's no great interest around here in going to New York City," says Don McDonald, 15, a sophomore at Garfield County High School in Jordan. Many graduates major in agriculture at two-year colleges around the Big Sky State and then return to family ranches if they have them. Otherwise they must look for work elsewhere...
...turnover among rural teachers is high. Pine Grove went through four in 1978 alone, including one man who was bothered by the presence of mice. The educators must endure Montana's brutal winters in isolation, usually in tiny quarters attached to their schoolhouses. Nor is there much excitement in town except the Hell Creek Bar. Salaries are low. Savage, a widowed 22-year veteran of six rural Montana schools, makes $14,000 annually after six years at Pine Grove. "You've got to love what you're doing," she says. Then she rings her brass school bell out the front...