Negative Space: crises

If you go to Bethlehem and ask for old Joe the carpenter, I wouldn’t be surprised if they point you over the hill and tell you “he and his wife used to be over there, until their kid got in trouble with the law. Don’t know where he went after that.” Small towns take a long time to pick up anything new, and a long time to forget anything old. — Thomas Matthew Carter (It Isn’t Murder If They’re Yankees)