On the Radio: The Illusion of Rural Independence
My first-ever radio piece broadcast on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network last week. Have a listen:
Posted by C Neal at 3:32 PM
file under: economics, indulgent self-reference, the built environment, yankee nativism
excerpted from a quote of Don Pedro, a Spanish stereotype and frame-narrative foil in Melville's Moby Dick:
"Hereabouts in this dull, warm, most lazy, and hereditary land, we know but little of your
vigorous North."
See also the inaugural post.
1 comment:
Nice piece! I hope it gave some food for thought to some of those people listening in the car on their long trip home.
I actually know someone who lives in Steep Falls and commutes to Freeport five days a week :-/
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