Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: A Translation of Bones
1. A Rivulet Ran through It . . . and a Man Danced Naked
2. One Cent and a Stale Chew of Tobacco: the Proprietor
3. Canal Burg
4. A Little Town Called Wabash . . . One of the Most Beautiful
5. Out of the Woods at Last
6. Taming Tawdry Town
7. “Arma Virumque Cano”
8. A Photo, a Fire, and a Future
9. Of Gilt and God
10. The Guilty and the Gilt-less
11. Fun and Games
12. Bustling Agora
13. Soaring Acropolis
14. Perpendicularity: the Author’s Apologia
Notes
Index