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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

On Place and Neighborhood

I suppose it's the mark of the provincial man, but in any case I find that I have a special and lasting love for this place, which is so obviously just a place, which has no particular beauty or grace or grandeur of scene, but which is, quite simply, a neighborhood, my neighborhood, a compound of sights and smells and sounds that have furnished all my years.
--Father Hugh Kennedy in Edwin O'Connor, The Edge of Sadness (1961)

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