Perhaps this exhibit is a requiem, but one that should provoke disquiet more than nostalgia. Grief, perhaps, but not resignation.
This university lives in the middle of this region. Our hopes live and die, here more than most places, on the life or death of the rural. I do not believe that the modernizing faith that built this university saw prisons and tourism as the optimistic future, the basis for a vibrant democracy.
I have no prescription.
Perhaps, the new immigrants who are even now settling our countryside will–like the last great wave of immigration–discern a new way to use this land. To my eye, educated by better than half a century living in and studying the rural, from the beginning of the twenty-first century, the future looks like now.
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This university lives in the middle of this region. Our hopes live and die, here more than most places, on the life or death of the rural. I do not believe that the modernizing faith that built this university saw prisons and tourism as the optimistic future, the basis for a vibrant democracy.
I have no prescription.
Perhaps, the new immigrants who are even now settling our countryside will–like the last great wave of immigration–discern a new way to use this land. To my eye, educated by better than half a century living in and studying the rural, from the beginning of the twenty-first century, the future looks like now.
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