Homesickness in America
"Soldiers, conscripts, African American slaves sold away from their families, American Indians incarcerated in government boarding schools, wives of IBM ladder-climbers, the displaced victims of urban renewal, homesick pioneers and immigrants and country boys adrift in the city" are the subjects of a book reviewed by Bill Kauffman, who begins by saying, "Mobility is the great undiagnosed sickness afflicting America" — Don’t It Make You Wanna Go Home Now?
Labels: America the Beautiful, Localism, The Written Word
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Talking Head's "Naive Melody (This Must be the Place)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTPqPZzH-LA
Appropriately the theme to the original "Wall Street". We see where that mobility got Bud Fox!
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