Canton, IL Aug 2012
Lived in small towns my entire life…Perry: 500, Arenzville: 450 My doors are unlocked tonight, you don’t need a street address if you want to send me a letter… Tornado Alarm: Fire Dept: “Hey! A Tornado’s comin’!” Not home for UPS…leave on neighbor’s porch Three churches…Methodist, Lutheran and Catholic…but no one walks to church,. .must win the car-count on the street I picked up a loaf of bread at the local grocery store. “You don’t need it. You just bought a loaf yesterday.”
In short, I identify with Thorton Wilder and Grover’s Corners. Victory in Jesus…Beard Memorial Piano
Wilder also produced some famous music..in a way. 1938: wrote The Merchant of Yonkers…revised it under the title of The Matchmaker in 1954, made into a film in 1958, then a musical starring Carol Channing. 10 Tony Awards..Insured Wilder’s financial security for life. Hello Dolly.
A very small town boy… Irving Berlin.. God Bless America
During a visit to Zürich in September 1937, he drafted the entire third act in one day after a long evening walk in the rain with a friend, author Samuel Morris Steward.[1] The narrator gives the coordinates of Grover's Corners as 42°40′ north latitude and 70°37′ west longitude, which is in Massachusetts, about a thousand feet off the coast of Rockport.