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Article: Small places: In Search of a Vanishing America.
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- December 1, 1990
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Small Places: In Search of a Vanishing America
Thomas H. Rawls. Little, Brown, $16.95. After Tom Rawls visited Fulton County, Pennsylvania, several years ago, he went home and turned out a sympathetic portrait of the rural redoubt and two "outsiders"--this reviewer and his partner--who were struggling to move from daily journalism to full-time farming.
The piece appeared as another of the "Small Places" that Rawls was writing up for Harrowsmith, a magazine about country life that he edits in Vermont. Rawls found Fulton County altogether charming and noteworthy for a local ethos that proudly treasures its ruralness even as the disconcerting fringes of ...