This Land by Barry, Dan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Introduction Part One: Change AFTER THE BALL IS OVER, AFTER THE BREAK OF DAWN

A Way of Life, Seen Through Coal-Tinted Glasses A Teenage Soldier’s Goodbyes on the Road to Over There In a Town Called Bill, a Boomlet of Sorts Silence Replaces Bids and Moos at Stockyards in Suburbs Far Removed and Struggling, but Still a Piece of America At a School in Kansas, a Moment Resonates On the Bow’ry Annie and Gloria A Bypassed Small Town Makes a Visual Statement: Here We Are Sewers, Curfews and a Ban on Gay Bias Storied Providence Skyscraper, Now Empty, Seeks a Future At the End, Divide Between Clinton and Trump Is Only a Manhattan Mile Another Day at a Monument to Democracy

Part Two: Hope MEET ME TONIGHT IN DREAMLAND

Part Three: Misdeeds HERE YOU HAVE YOUR MORNING PAPERS, ALL ABOUT THE CRIMES

Part Four: Intolerance I’M ALWAYS CHASING RAINBOWS

Part Five: Hard Times HARD TIMES, HARD TIMES, COME AGAIN NO MORE

Part Six: Nature THE BEAUTIFUL, THE BEAUTIFUL RIVER

A Hand-to-Hand Struggle with a Raging River Learning to Love the Sea, Then Torn from It As the Mountaintops Fall, a Coal Town Vanishes Losing Everything, Except What Really Matters Ready, Aim, Fireworks! In Fuel Oil Country, Cold That Cuts to the Heart

Part Seven: Grace AH! SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE

He Befriended a Serial Killer, and Opened the Door to God 20,000 Days Down the Road, a Night on the Path A Story of Exile and Union Few Are Left to Tell Burlesque Days Again for the Feather Boa Crowd Seeking God’s Help for a Wounded Gulf Passion Play in Rural Florida Endures Time’s Many Trials The Boy Who Became Judy Garland Not Official, but Still a Wisconsin Pardon Finding Independence, and a Bond

Part Eight: The Ever-Present Past SHINE LITTLE GLOW-WORM, GLIMMER, GLIMMER

Restoring Dignity to Sitting Bull, Wherever He Is Between Kentucky and Ohio, Hard Feelings over a Rock’s Place Holding Firm Against Plots by Evildoers Keeping Alive Memories That Bedevil Him From New Deal to New Hard Times, Eleanor Endures Dust Is Gone Above the Bar, but a Legend Still Dangles What We Kept A Town Won’t Let Go of a Coin-Drop Line to the Past Restoring Lost Names, Recapturing Lost Dignity Still Standing, Precariously A Ranger, a Field and the Flight 93 Story Retold A Trip Down Obama Highway in an Old Dixie Town

Epilogue: In the Middle of Nowhere, a Nation’s Center Acknowledgments Photography Credits Newsletters