Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Ivan Baits the City Slicker

My friend Ivan, taking a few minutes off from the cattle ranch outside Huntsville, indulges in a small spasm of slicker-baiting:

...for those who keep up with newspapers, i saw something in a WashPost article sunday in Hvlle Times worth noting. I was reading along in the article on the GM strike's effect on The Spring Hill, Tennessee workers when i ran across this, about Spring Hill -- "... and the town was almost entirely farmland ...."

Has anyone ever seen a southern town -- Alabama, Tennesee, Kentucky -- deep or upper south, that was mostly farmland? maybe it was surrounded by farmland, maybe once you got outside the city limits it was farmland, but towns are houses, stores, schools, a municipal and/or county building. medical facilities.

Ah, touché Ivan (but you know perfectly well what she meant, eh?). It does impel me to remember my last trip to South Carolina: I picked up a car at the Charlotte Airport and drove about 80 miles to a county-seat town on the edge of the mountains. Thing is, I didn't see any open land anywhere--every couple of hundred yards, another house, with no clear definition between town and country.

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