Word: towners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...onto Route 80. The police escort halts traffic as Malone's son Greg leads the caravan in an attention-grabbing red-bannered pickup. Next come the police, a Mississippi Power & Light crew and Sister Grace, who occasionally slows down to take a picture. Bringing up the rear is Otis Towner at the wheel of the pickup carrying the steps. With hazard lights blinking, the procession crawls past the local U-Haul dealership, gas stations and the post office. Impatient drivers trail behind, and kids on bicycles stop to gaze at the rolling house...
...through an opening in the bushes and turns the rig around in front of the burned remains of the old house. "I think you should move it a little more away from the power line," the Mississippi Power & Light man warns Malone as he checks the house's positioning. Towner calls Anderson over to the front. "Do you like it here?" he asks. She looks up and down the building's length and along its sides and then responds with a simple...
Season to Taste Books (3,000; Chicago). To an out-of-towner, the shadow of Wrigley Field may seem an odd place to find one of the nation's best cookbook stores, but Season has scored in the now fashionable neighborhood with butcher-block decor and tomes on food and drink, including esoteric offerings such as one on Transylvanian cuisine. Everyone seems hungry for the stock. "Some people collect cookbooks as art," says co-owner Barry Bluestein. "Some see them as sociological studies of what people were eating in different times and places, and some just ask, 'Is this...
...hamburger haircut does sound rather unpleasant. But advice from a hairstylist sounds downright dangerous for a Home Towner like myself. Barbers I've met always talk weather and sports; they don't proffer advise. We Home Towners take our advice from the Home Town tarot readers...
...patriotic circulation builder for the Christmas 1934 issue of TIME. Walker was duly interviewed, Benton's self-portrait went on the cover, and American regionalism was born. "A play was written and a stage erected for us," Benton would later remark. "Grant Wood became the typical Iowa small towner, John Curry the typical Kansas farmer, and I just an Ozark hillbilly. We accepted our roles...