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...Passing Buck. Driving through the green, rolling Piedmont country of Taliaferro County, a visitor can go for miles without meeting another car. The county seat of Crawfordville (pop. 786) proudly preserves the house of Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, and the white, four-faced clock on the courthouse cupola tolls the hours in perfect time. But even at high noon, Crawfordville has a ghostly air. The stores are empty. The moviehouse closed down years ago. The town dentist and doctor have moved away. This month a towel manufacturer talked of putting new life into Crawfordville by starting...
...Grecian islands are creatures of the sea, bound by myth and religion, commerce, a mystical aloneness: Kos, where Hippocrates was born; Patmos, where the monastery exhibits the St. Mark Gospel written in silver on 33 leaves of purple vellum (and where the hard-scrabbling islanders, says a visitor, "live on packages from relatives in New Jersey"); wooded Samos, divided from Turkey by a spectacular channel; Chios, one of Homer's many birthplaces; Lesbos, where Sappho wrote her molten poems...
...hints to travelers, "do not blow your horn. This may annoy him." Merely stop some distance away and rev your engine, and he will step aside. If, on the other hand, the traveler has no engine to rev, there should be no disputing the right of way-the visitor would do well to rev his feet and get out in a hurry...
Suitably impressed, the visitor and his wife, a couple in search of a permanent settling place, inquired at the manager's office about rates. Watching the newcomers from his little garden, Trailerite Mack Gottschalk sighed with satisfaction. "It's a trailerite's heaven," said he. "When a trailerite dies, he'd like to come to something like this...
Whitby is proudly "a work school, not a play school," and in their uniform grey skirts and shorts the children at first seem unduly solemn. Silence fills the classrooms; tears and giggles are rare; even teachers speak in near whispers. The visitor is sure that something is drastically wrong. Actually, the children are absorbed in a series of graded "jobs" that each feels compelled to complete-on his own. With almost no visible goading, Whitby's kids learn numbers at three, write at four, read at five, parse sentences at seven. Whitby is at least two years ahead...