Category: Social change

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Hugh Lickliter, blacksmith

New Burlington, Ohio: When a Town Dies
The Craftsmen: The Old Ways

The blacksmith shop is in the farmland north of the village. It was not the oldest blacksmith shop in the New Burlington farming community, but it survived to become the oldest. Hugh Lickliter built it behind his house in the first year of the great

Photo by Bob Bowman

New Burlington, Ohio: When a Town Dies

February 28, 1973   Prologue   All history, granted a wide enough perspective, is merely irony. In the paleozoic era, New Burlington, Ohio, was very largely limestone, at the bottom of the sea. Later, it was forest: the durable oak, the sweet maple, the sassafras,

Painting house

They Don’t Need P-128s Anymore

Something’s happening here, and, sorry boys, what it is is getting to be exactly clear. First Manifestation “…For there are only two kinds of time (time-future being the province of melancholy seers, jocular quacks, and somber religionists promising kingdoms they haven’t the conge to promise): there is

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Conversations With Workers I, 1972

(RECITATION): I dedicate this song to the working man, for every man that puts in eight or ten hard hours a day of work and toil and sweat, who’s always got somebody looking down his neck trying to get more out of him than he