“Fenway Park,” John Updike begins his famous 1960 piece on Ted Williams, “is a lyric little band box of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curious sharp focus....”Goodness, thatĢƵ not what the ball yard in Rowes Run resembles. Like Fenway Park in Boston, Rowes Run ...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - In the 1960s, Orange County south of Los Angeles fascinated social scientists who, like anthropologists studying primitives, considered its residents exotic. The county gave Barry Goldwater 56% of its votes in the 1964 presidential election while he was winning just ...
Marion County, Kansas, is located in the middle of the state, almost three hours west of Kansas City, Kan., and is really not the kind of place anyone would really expect to ever hear anything about.It has a population of about 11,000 people, and its weekly newspaper, the ...