"From above, the land is like one endless, unpunctuated idea — sand, tumbleweed, turkey, bunch stem, buffalo, meadow, cow, rick of hay, creek, sunflower, sand — and only rarely did a house or a windmill or a barn suddenly appear to suspend the sense of limitlessness." - - Life Along the 100th Meridian
Photography from "Dirt Meridian" by Andrew L Moore
Posted by gerardvanderleun at December 7, 2013 11:48 PMSomeone in the comments at the NYT said and being from Nebraska, I agree (paraphrasing) the prose made the people there look like noble savages and as some kind of completely different species of Americans.
Is it desolate? Yes.
Do the people there have their own oddities? Yes
Are their oddities more odd than in some other part of the country? No, I don't think so. Just different.
I do like the pictures though.
America, America.
God shed His grace on thee.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFM5x3J_dFo
Posted by: Rob De Witt at December 8, 2013 9:21 AMDo the people there have their own oddities?
Which people? Does that description include Warren Buffet?
Johnny Carson?
When I lived there they all seemed pretty normal to me... Well maybe not Buffet.
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