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20 Prospect
http://20prospect.wordpress.com/
20 Prospect is the place where I grew up and learned the value of front porch sitting. It’s home to another family now, but 20 Prospect lives on in my mind, and on this website. I hope you enjoy my musings, and reverie. Thanks for stopping by.
- Added on: Oct 9th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Anonymous
- Listed in: Personal Writing
- Tags: places memory business travel batavia minneapolis-st. paul western n.y.
Recent Posts
Christmas at Ma’s
This post is about a single Christmas, but its truly an amalgam of many Christmases. These memories were compiled over the course of my childhood, and over time they have come to blend together to form but a single memory, of many similar events, all...
Hollowing out Batavia
After the physical hollowing of downtown I’m currently reading “Hollowing out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What it Means for America” by Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas, two sociologists who spent a few years studying the path to ...
Mike Ward where are you?
This past summer I read Ray Bradbury’s novel Dandelion Wine, after hearing Bill Kaufman recommend it. I was never into Science Fiction, and the few Bradbury stories I had to read in High School English Class, never did much for me. (Although “All...
State Fair Coliseum
If there is one interesting side benefit for me of having 20 Prospect Jr. in youth hockey, it’s that I am getting a chance to visit different ice rinks around town, and do further undercover research on the Minnesota Hockey Cult. This past weekend ...
’tis the season
I hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving. This 4 day respite from posting has been wonderful. It was a thoroughly restful Thanksgiving weekend spent with family, honoring traditions, and getting into the post Thanksgiving mood. The potica has been bak...
Over the river and through the woods…
I’m back from our whirlwind tour of the great State of Wisconsin. A place very near and dear to my heart, as it is the ancestral home of Mrs. 20 Prospect. From the moment I first entered the state in August of 1989 and saw a billboard adverti...
