Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help find them, Jaynes pores over vast quantities of newspapers and periodicals, scooping them up wherever he happens to be. At home in Atlanta, he heads for a local bookstore that carries the city's largest assortment of out-of-town publications and buys $80 worth at a time. "The clerk is always happy to have me do it," Jaynes says in characteristic deadpan manner...
Story ideas often lead Jaynes down a circuitous path. "I may go into a town to write about a mean billy goat in someone's yard," he says, "and end up writing about an old goat at town hall." Such reflections come naturally to the Alabama-born Jaynes, who remains very much the Southerner. Yet his patchwork-quilt collection of pieces covers every section of the nation. Among the subjects that have piqued his interest are the loon preservationists in New Hampshire, a restaurant in Barrow, Alaska, that is the only place to find Mexican food in the Arctic Circle...
...Italian restaurants, such as the posh El Toula chain and the sublime San Domenico in Imola, near Bologna, are seeking locations. Not all agree that New York is the only place to be. Michael Hutchings explains why he and the Roux brothers chose Santa Barbara. "This is a cosmopolitan town and is a getaway for the very rich. People demand a high quality of life, and so it's perfect for a first-quality restaurant." Lower overhead and less competition are also factors. Andre Surmain, the founder of New York's Lutece but now known for his Relais a Mougins...
Everyone calls Marguerite Hanusa "Marge," and everyone who is anyone in the high plains Montana town of Choteau comes to Marge's adult piano and organ recital every year about this time. She holds it in the parlor of her house, where she has a Story & Clark upright, a Steinway baby grand and a two-tiered Conn with a full footboard. The first townspeople to show up get to sit on folding chairs from the Methodist and Lutheran churches; the tardy in the audience must make do with the staircase and the floor. After the music the party moves into...
...feel of it at last, but when he came to Brahm's Lullaby, he froze. "Marge!" he begged, and she appeared from the kitchen and placed his hands. "You've got it now," she said. "You sure?" he asked, and then played it fine. Albert Tesch, the town plumber, came in on the organ next and offered a sweet Carolina Moon and If I Loved You. Then in the course of an hour and a quarter they all returned in various combinations and played other tunes. The audience was effusive with its applause...