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Alliance, Illinois
Northwestern University Press, 2005 Paper: 978-0-8101-2213-0 Library of Congress Classification PS3555.T68A8 2005 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In the tradition of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, each of the 222 poems in this collection is narrated by a different resident of the fictional small town of Alliance, Illinois. Their voices, individual and yet familiar, describe the ordered simplicity of life in the American small town during the second half of the twentieth century. Dave Etter's themes and images come from the very lifeblood of prairie Illinois-rivers, trees, cornfields, wildlife, county fairs, railroads and, always, the people and the ever-changing seasons. Deceptively, invitingly simple on their surface, Etter's poems reveal upon careful examination a remarkable psychological insight and a careful craftsmanship. Alliance, Illinois is truly one of the great monuments of rural American literature. See other books on: Alliance | American | City and town life | Illinois | Poetry See other titles from Northwestern University Press |
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Alliance, Illinois
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by Dave Etter
Northwestern University Press, 2005
Paper: 978-0-8101-2213-0
Paper: 978-0-8101-2213-0
In the tradition of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, each of the 222 poems in this collection is narrated by a different resident of the fictional small town of Alliance, Illinois. Their voices, individual and yet familiar, describe the ordered simplicity of life in the American small town during the second half of the twentieth century. Dave Etter's themes and images come from the very lifeblood of prairie Illinois-rivers, trees, cornfields, wildlife, county fairs, railroads and, always, the people and the ever-changing seasons. Deceptively, invitingly simple on their surface, Etter's poems reveal upon careful examination a remarkable psychological insight and a careful craftsmanship. Alliance, Illinois is truly one of the great monuments of rural American literature.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Dave Etter was born in California in 1928. He settled in northern Illinois in 1958 and worked as an editor for several book publishers. He has won prizes from the Society of Midland Authors, Poetry Northwest (Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize) and the Illinois Sesquicentennial Commission. In 1982 his book West of Chicago (Spoon River, 1981) won the Carl Sandburg Award in poetry. Etter's poems have appeared in over a hundred textbooks and anthologies. His other works include The Essential Dave Etter (Spoon River, 2001), and Sunflower County (Spoon River, 1994).
REVIEWS
"Strongly influenced by Masters, Lindsay, and Sandburg, he is a chronicler of Midwest prairie towns and the disappearing race of semi-rural people, with their inarticulate dreams and dark secrets." -Poetry
"Dave Etter. . .one of the best poets in America. His poems are at once gentle and incisive; they contain universal truths." -Poetry Now
"Etter's work is a joy to read, because he is, above all else, honest with himself and his attitude toward the world." -Library Journal
TABLE OF CONTENTS
GEORGE MAXWELL: County Seat
CHESTER GREENE: Taking the Census
AMANDA PURTILL: Four Rows of Sweet Corn
HENRY LICHENWALNER: Living in the Middle
MITCH VALENTINE: Billboard
TANYA OWENS: Equality
REX AGEE: Getting at the Truth
VALERIE MAYHEW: Cornfield Virgin
WADE HOLLENBACH: Hard Cider
SUSAN COBB: Names
TUCKER STONE: Stuttering Hands
ROGER POWELL: The Talk at Rukenbrod's
FLORA RUTHERFORD: Postcard to Florida
ORVILLE JUMP: Me, Myself, and I
STANLEY ADAMS: Country Road K
CLARENCE FOWLER: Nuts and Bolts
BRUCE PUTNAM: Crayola
MELISSA JENKINS: Staring Into Winter
JAMIE MCFEE: Big Sister
YVONNE WYNCOOP: Looking at Clouds
FRANK TEMPLE: Wet Spring, Dark Earth
MOLLY DUNAWAY: Rainbow
NEIL CAMPBELL: Humor
ZACHARY GRANT: Guilt
STUBBY PAYNE: Stocking Tops
AMOS BLACKBURN: War of the Hybrids
PRUDENCE ARCHER: Thirteen
KYLE TROWBRIDGE: Bird's Eye View
NINA JAMES: Writing Down the Dream
LESTER RASMUSSEN: Jane's Blue Jeans
WILL GOODENOW: The Red Depot
MICHAEL FLANAGAN: Unemployed
DREW MANNING: Harvest Dust
ABIGAIL TAYLOR: Senility
WAT NUGENT: Epitaph
ISIAH ROODHOUSE: Putting Off the Encyclopedia Salesman
TRACY LIMANTOUR: Flowers and Smoke
PIKE WALDROP: For the Record
CHICK CUNNINGHAM: Horse Opera
GARY SHACKHAMMER: Remembering the Thirties
STELLA LYNCH: The Opposite Sex
MICHELLE TREMBLAY: Yellow
EDGAR WILSON: Carousel
DAVID MOSS: Corn and Beans
REV. FELIX DIETRICH: Gospel
VICKI ST. CLAIR: Home from the River
TRAVIS JOHNSTON: North
RANDY WHITE: From a Big Chief Tablet Found Under a Bench at the Courthouse Square
HOWARD DRUMGOOLE: Hotel Tall Corn
GARTH LIGHT: Muscles
ARDIS NEWKIRK: At the Charity Ball
RICHARD GARLAND: Railroad Strike
JUNIOR IVES: Barn Burner
LOGAN STUART: The Union Soldier
CHARLOTTE NORTHCOTT: Insomnia
PEGGY DANIELS: Moonlight Yodel
JEREMY FORQUER: The Smell of Lilacs
MAURY CHASE: Famous
SONNY BAXTER: Spider Webs
TOM RANDALL: Under a Gigantic Sky
VERNON YATES: Talking About the Erstwhile Paperboy to the Editor of the Alliance Gazette
URSULA ZOLLINGER: Last House on Union Street
GLENN TWITCHELL: Rose Petals
PERRY MEEK: Wife Killer
DENISE WATKINS: Some Come Running
AUGUST CRABTREE: Simple Words
EMMETT BEASLEY: Man Talking to Himself
RUDY GERSTENBERG: Memo to the Erie-Lackawanna
DR. MALCOLM LINDSAY: Catfish and Watermelon
LUCY BETH YOUNGQUIST: The Reunion
WALLY DODGE: The Hat
JOHNNY WILCOX: In the Barbershop
GROVER ELY: Ancestoral Home
TRUDY MONROE: Saturday Afternoon on Elm Street
HERBERT TOMPKINS: The Crippled Poet's Dream
JOE SPRAGUE: Fourteen Stones
NOAH CREEKMORE: Bingo
POP GAINES: After the Farm Auction
YALE BROCKLANDER: Tractor on Main Street
FLOYD NYE: Dog on the Stairs
DEWEY CLAY DOYLE: Sleeping Bags
LOUISE CATHCART: Hearing an Old Song Again
MARCUS MILLSAP: School Day Afternoon
HAROLD BLISS: Questions and Answers
PEARL INGERSOLL: Homework
NELSON HURLBUT: Last Day of Summer Vacation, 1924
STEPHEN FROMHOLD: Freight Trains in Winter
CURLY VANCE: The Pool Players
MISSY UMBARGER: Stories in the Kitchen
EUGENE CLARK: Grass Roots
BOOTH SCHOFIELD: A Dream of Old
AVERY LUCAS: Apples
DELBERT VARNEY: One-Way Conversation With a Rug Beater
KARL THEIS: The Widower Turns Eighty
SHELLEY BROWN: Acorns
CHARLEY HOOPER: Schoolteacher
MILO FERRIS: A Damned Pretty Rain
LYLE MURPHY: Pregnant
TERRY REESE: Boom Boom on B Street
ALICIA JACKSON: Fire Dream
EARL VAN HORNE: Monopoly
BARNEY PRINGLE: Heat Wave
NETTIE KERSHAW: Pickle Puss
FRED DELOPLAINE: Illinois Farmers
EDWINA MCBRIDE: Trademarks
AARON FICKLIN: Brother
JEROME HOLTSAPPLE: Flower Thief
RACHEL OSGOOD: Cornhusk Dolls
CLYDE ROCKWELL: Bus Stop
KEVIN PRUITT: Taking Down the Flag
APRIL MCINTYRE: Fishing in the Rain
NED SWIFT: Downtown
ANTHONY FASANO: Greenhorn
CRYSTAL GAVIS: Depressed After Being Fired from Another Job
BECKY FARMER: Seen and Not Heard
HERSCHEL NIEDERCORN: Requiem
TERESA BIRDSELL: Sunflower Queen
DUSTY PICKENS: Logan's Creek
JEFFREY KOHRS: Summer Employment
BOOG MONCRIEF: Falling Apart
PAUL SUMMERHAY: Manuscript
GRETCHEN NAYLOR: Nowhere
JUDGE EMIL ZANGWILL: Angry Words
CARL YELENICH: One Tough Hombre
BEN HILDEBRAND: Father and Son
MASON SINCENDIVER: Driving to Town
WOODY O'NEILL: Outside the Western Auto Store
SANDRA JOYNER: Newcomer
DEREK VREELAND: The Apple Trees of Pioneer Grove
KIM AUSTIN: Art Class
LARRY GRAHAM: Empty Beer Can
RALPH C. KRAMER: Gossip
SCOTT LANSING: Trotters
CAMILLE WEBSTER: Bull Durham
BOYD DRAKE: Staying up Late
ADAM POSEY: Sunday Comics
ELLEN OPDYCKE: The Fall
FAYE HOCKING: At the Home for Unwed Mothers
DAISY COLE: The Housekeeper's Story
OTIS K. SIZEMORE: Child in the House
WARREN EGGLESTON: Nostalgia
KEITH APPLEBEE: Boozing Bigots
JOLENE DOERR: Fat
IVAN LOOMIS: The Vision
ELWOOD COLLINS: Summer of 1932
LANCE BOOMSMA: Wedding Reception
PHYLLIS NESBIT: Chinese Restaurant
O. E. MOONEY: Working on the Railroad
HOPE GIBBS: Fire and Water
ROBERT EVERWINE: Son
NATHAN ACKERMAN: In Kreb's Kandy Kitchen
DOROTHY TILLINGHAST: Local History
TINA ROMERO: The Jesus Barn
CORKY NOLAN: High School Blues
PHIL DUDLEY: Cow in the Creek
LEWIS PERCY: Goodbye
ROWENA STARK: Snowman
NORBERT JOYCE: Drummers
BILLY UNDERWOOD: Memorial Day
GRACE RODZINSKY: Cocktail Party
SAM BUCKNER: Lovers' Quarrel
ESTELLE ETHEREGE: Fifty
HEIDI KOENIG: Slow Day at the Office
WILBURN MILLER: Tough Guy
SELMA SKOGLAND: Peanut Butter
DOUG CHANDLER: Television
GUY HANSEN: Retirement
BETSY PETTIGREW: Carnival on Eye Street
LUANNE ELLIOTT: Escaping the Holy Rollers
MACK SCARCE: Going Steady
RUDY KIMBLE: Homecoming Game
HARLAN ADCOCK: Body
OWEN HENDERSON: Bad Night on the Blue Hollow Road
DONALD GUEST: Boredom
KELSEY JUDD: Murder
LINDA FULGHAM: Ida May and Ida May Not
VELMA WITHERSPOON: Mischief
BRADFORD TULLEY: Lonesome
HOLLY JO ANDERSON: Bein' Poor
WESLEY HARKNESS: Why He Didn't Repair the Bookcase
RAYMOND KAFARSKI: Wheels
SALLY WHIPPLE: Great-Grandmother's Speech on New Year's Eve
PETER VOSBURGH: Return to River Street
IRMA GILLESPIE: Chicken Bone
TOOKIE THORNHILL: Cleaning Up the Yard
SYLVESTER F. BILLINGS: The Civil War
LLOYD KELLOGG: The Man Who Played Clarinet in the High School Band Back in 1936, But Then Never Amounted to Anything Much After That, Is Here Again Today, Folks
KATHY SCHOONOVER: Identity
GREGORY DAWSON: Sick Before Supper
RUSSELL HAYES: Federal Highway
KERMIT OLMSTED: Roots
MILDRED CESAREK: At the Crossroads
LAMAR WOCKENFUSS: Friendly Persuasion
CALVIN FAIRBANKS: Letter to Grandma
HELEN ALBRIGHT: Booster
PORTER KNOX: The Christmas Tree
MOE OTT: Deathbed Words of a Life Insurance Salesman
ELMER PRATT: Revelation
KAREN HICKS: Loony
CURTIS LURTSEMA: National Pastime
REGINA WASHINGTON: Incompatibility
MAYBELLE JONES: A Trip to the Bank
GLORIA HAWTHORNE: Her Dying Child
KATE PINCHOT: Public Library
LEONARD MASSINGAIL: Fatherly Advice
JACK ERTEL: The Fighter
DAWN CASAGRANDE: Concert
ARNOLD WHEELER: Ambition
BRIAN HARDY: Little Theater
JONI LEFEVRE: Bicycle Ride to the Cannery
GOLDIE KLIPSTEIN: Creative Writing
MICKEY CONWAY: Tornado Warning
NANCY EASTWICK: Jericho Township
HAMILTON RIVERS: Noon at Carl's Mainline Cafe
WAYNE V. NOYES, JR.: Front Porch Swing
ROSE GARABALDI: Real Estate
IRWIN STREETER: Worms
PHOEBE YAEGER: Cheerleader
WALTER INGRAM: In the Middle of the Middle West
KIRBY QUACKENBUSH: September Moon
CHESTER GREENE: Taking the Census
AMANDA PURTILL: Four Rows of Sweet Corn
HENRY LICHENWALNER: Living in the Middle
MITCH VALENTINE: Billboard
TANYA OWENS: Equality
REX AGEE: Getting at the Truth
VALERIE MAYHEW: Cornfield Virgin
WADE HOLLENBACH: Hard Cider
SUSAN COBB: Names
TUCKER STONE: Stuttering Hands
ROGER POWELL: The Talk at Rukenbrod's
FLORA RUTHERFORD: Postcard to Florida
ORVILLE JUMP: Me, Myself, and I
STANLEY ADAMS: Country Road K
CLARENCE FOWLER: Nuts and Bolts
BRUCE PUTNAM: Crayola
MELISSA JENKINS: Staring Into Winter
JAMIE MCFEE: Big Sister
YVONNE WYNCOOP: Looking at Clouds
FRANK TEMPLE: Wet Spring, Dark Earth
MOLLY DUNAWAY: Rainbow
NEIL CAMPBELL: Humor
ZACHARY GRANT: Guilt
STUBBY PAYNE: Stocking Tops
AMOS BLACKBURN: War of the Hybrids
PRUDENCE ARCHER: Thirteen
KYLE TROWBRIDGE: Bird's Eye View
NINA JAMES: Writing Down the Dream
LESTER RASMUSSEN: Jane's Blue Jeans
WILL GOODENOW: The Red Depot
MICHAEL FLANAGAN: Unemployed
DREW MANNING: Harvest Dust
ABIGAIL TAYLOR: Senility
WAT NUGENT: Epitaph
ISIAH ROODHOUSE: Putting Off the Encyclopedia Salesman
TRACY LIMANTOUR: Flowers and Smoke
PIKE WALDROP: For the Record
CHICK CUNNINGHAM: Horse Opera
GARY SHACKHAMMER: Remembering the Thirties
STELLA LYNCH: The Opposite Sex
MICHELLE TREMBLAY: Yellow
EDGAR WILSON: Carousel
DAVID MOSS: Corn and Beans
REV. FELIX DIETRICH: Gospel
VICKI ST. CLAIR: Home from the River
TRAVIS JOHNSTON: North
RANDY WHITE: From a Big Chief Tablet Found Under a Bench at the Courthouse Square
HOWARD DRUMGOOLE: Hotel Tall Corn
GARTH LIGHT: Muscles
ARDIS NEWKIRK: At the Charity Ball
RICHARD GARLAND: Railroad Strike
JUNIOR IVES: Barn Burner
LOGAN STUART: The Union Soldier
CHARLOTTE NORTHCOTT: Insomnia
PEGGY DANIELS: Moonlight Yodel
JEREMY FORQUER: The Smell of Lilacs
MAURY CHASE: Famous
SONNY BAXTER: Spider Webs
TOM RANDALL: Under a Gigantic Sky
VERNON YATES: Talking About the Erstwhile Paperboy to the Editor of the Alliance Gazette
URSULA ZOLLINGER: Last House on Union Street
GLENN TWITCHELL: Rose Petals
PERRY MEEK: Wife Killer
DENISE WATKINS: Some Come Running
AUGUST CRABTREE: Simple Words
EMMETT BEASLEY: Man Talking to Himself
RUDY GERSTENBERG: Memo to the Erie-Lackawanna
DR. MALCOLM LINDSAY: Catfish and Watermelon
LUCY BETH YOUNGQUIST: The Reunion
WALLY DODGE: The Hat
JOHNNY WILCOX: In the Barbershop
GROVER ELY: Ancestoral Home
TRUDY MONROE: Saturday Afternoon on Elm Street
HERBERT TOMPKINS: The Crippled Poet's Dream
JOE SPRAGUE: Fourteen Stones
NOAH CREEKMORE: Bingo
POP GAINES: After the Farm Auction
YALE BROCKLANDER: Tractor on Main Street
FLOYD NYE: Dog on the Stairs
DEWEY CLAY DOYLE: Sleeping Bags
LOUISE CATHCART: Hearing an Old Song Again
MARCUS MILLSAP: School Day Afternoon
HAROLD BLISS: Questions and Answers
PEARL INGERSOLL: Homework
NELSON HURLBUT: Last Day of Summer Vacation, 1924
STEPHEN FROMHOLD: Freight Trains in Winter
CURLY VANCE: The Pool Players
MISSY UMBARGER: Stories in the Kitchen
EUGENE CLARK: Grass Roots
BOOTH SCHOFIELD: A Dream of Old
AVERY LUCAS: Apples
DELBERT VARNEY: One-Way Conversation With a Rug Beater
KARL THEIS: The Widower Turns Eighty
SHELLEY BROWN: Acorns
CHARLEY HOOPER: Schoolteacher
MILO FERRIS: A Damned Pretty Rain
LYLE MURPHY: Pregnant
TERRY REESE: Boom Boom on B Street
ALICIA JACKSON: Fire Dream
EARL VAN HORNE: Monopoly
BARNEY PRINGLE: Heat Wave
NETTIE KERSHAW: Pickle Puss
FRED DELOPLAINE: Illinois Farmers
EDWINA MCBRIDE: Trademarks
AARON FICKLIN: Brother
JEROME HOLTSAPPLE: Flower Thief
RACHEL OSGOOD: Cornhusk Dolls
CLYDE ROCKWELL: Bus Stop
KEVIN PRUITT: Taking Down the Flag
APRIL MCINTYRE: Fishing in the Rain
NED SWIFT: Downtown
ANTHONY FASANO: Greenhorn
CRYSTAL GAVIS: Depressed After Being Fired from Another Job
BECKY FARMER: Seen and Not Heard
HERSCHEL NIEDERCORN: Requiem
TERESA BIRDSELL: Sunflower Queen
DUSTY PICKENS: Logan's Creek
JEFFREY KOHRS: Summer Employment
BOOG MONCRIEF: Falling Apart
PAUL SUMMERHAY: Manuscript
GRETCHEN NAYLOR: Nowhere
JUDGE EMIL ZANGWILL: Angry Words
CARL YELENICH: One Tough Hombre
BEN HILDEBRAND: Father and Son
MASON SINCENDIVER: Driving to Town
WOODY O'NEILL: Outside the Western Auto Store
SANDRA JOYNER: Newcomer
DEREK VREELAND: The Apple Trees of Pioneer Grove
KIM AUSTIN: Art Class
LARRY GRAHAM: Empty Beer Can
RALPH C. KRAMER: Gossip
SCOTT LANSING: Trotters
CAMILLE WEBSTER: Bull Durham
BOYD DRAKE: Staying up Late
ADAM POSEY: Sunday Comics
ELLEN OPDYCKE: The Fall
FAYE HOCKING: At the Home for Unwed Mothers
DAISY COLE: The Housekeeper's Story
OTIS K. SIZEMORE: Child in the House
WARREN EGGLESTON: Nostalgia
KEITH APPLEBEE: Boozing Bigots
JOLENE DOERR: Fat
IVAN LOOMIS: The Vision
ELWOOD COLLINS: Summer of 1932
LANCE BOOMSMA: Wedding Reception
PHYLLIS NESBIT: Chinese Restaurant
O. E. MOONEY: Working on the Railroad
HOPE GIBBS: Fire and Water
ROBERT EVERWINE: Son
NATHAN ACKERMAN: In Kreb's Kandy Kitchen
DOROTHY TILLINGHAST: Local History
TINA ROMERO: The Jesus Barn
CORKY NOLAN: High School Blues
PHIL DUDLEY: Cow in the Creek
LEWIS PERCY: Goodbye
ROWENA STARK: Snowman
NORBERT JOYCE: Drummers
BILLY UNDERWOOD: Memorial Day
GRACE RODZINSKY: Cocktail Party
SAM BUCKNER: Lovers' Quarrel
ESTELLE ETHEREGE: Fifty
HEIDI KOENIG: Slow Day at the Office
WILBURN MILLER: Tough Guy
SELMA SKOGLAND: Peanut Butter
DOUG CHANDLER: Television
GUY HANSEN: Retirement
BETSY PETTIGREW: Carnival on Eye Street
LUANNE ELLIOTT: Escaping the Holy Rollers
MACK SCARCE: Going Steady
RUDY KIMBLE: Homecoming Game
HARLAN ADCOCK: Body
OWEN HENDERSON: Bad Night on the Blue Hollow Road
DONALD GUEST: Boredom
KELSEY JUDD: Murder
LINDA FULGHAM: Ida May and Ida May Not
VELMA WITHERSPOON: Mischief
BRADFORD TULLEY: Lonesome
HOLLY JO ANDERSON: Bein' Poor
WESLEY HARKNESS: Why He Didn't Repair the Bookcase
RAYMOND KAFARSKI: Wheels
SALLY WHIPPLE: Great-Grandmother's Speech on New Year's Eve
PETER VOSBURGH: Return to River Street
IRMA GILLESPIE: Chicken Bone
TOOKIE THORNHILL: Cleaning Up the Yard
SYLVESTER F. BILLINGS: The Civil War
LLOYD KELLOGG: The Man Who Played Clarinet in the High School Band Back in 1936, But Then Never Amounted to Anything Much After That, Is Here Again Today, Folks
KATHY SCHOONOVER: Identity
GREGORY DAWSON: Sick Before Supper
RUSSELL HAYES: Federal Highway
KERMIT OLMSTED: Roots
MILDRED CESAREK: At the Crossroads
LAMAR WOCKENFUSS: Friendly Persuasion
CALVIN FAIRBANKS: Letter to Grandma
HELEN ALBRIGHT: Booster
PORTER KNOX: The Christmas Tree
MOE OTT: Deathbed Words of a Life Insurance Salesman
ELMER PRATT: Revelation
KAREN HICKS: Loony
CURTIS LURTSEMA: National Pastime
REGINA WASHINGTON: Incompatibility
MAYBELLE JONES: A Trip to the Bank
GLORIA HAWTHORNE: Her Dying Child
KATE PINCHOT: Public Library
LEONARD MASSINGAIL: Fatherly Advice
JACK ERTEL: The Fighter
DAWN CASAGRANDE: Concert
ARNOLD WHEELER: Ambition
BRIAN HARDY: Little Theater
JONI LEFEVRE: Bicycle Ride to the Cannery
GOLDIE KLIPSTEIN: Creative Writing
MICKEY CONWAY: Tornado Warning
NANCY EASTWICK: Jericho Township
HAMILTON RIVERS: Noon at Carl's Mainline Cafe
WAYNE V. NOYES, JR.: Front Porch Swing
ROSE GARABALDI: Real Estate
IRWIN STREETER: Worms
PHOEBE YAEGER: Cheerleader
WALTER INGRAM: In the Middle of the Middle West
KIRBY QUACKENBUSH: September Moon
EXCERPT
David Moss: Corn and Beans You won't believe it, Uncle Max. The corn is already scarecrow high and those beans are swelling up, proud as new granddaddies. What we have here, my boy, is some good old-fashioned ag-ri-cul-ture Corn wants to fly away, Uncle Max, and beans want to spread their fire. Son, the sun is surely gospel.
David Moss: Corn and Beans You won't believe it, Uncle Max. The corn is already scarecrow high and those beans are swelling up, proud as new granddaddies. What we have here, my boy, is some good old-fashioned ag-ri-cul-ture Corn wants to fly away, Uncle Max, and beans want to spread their fire. Son, the sun is surely gospel.
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