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who would say, through all of this,
we’re not redeemed by our essential silliness?’’ From “The Church of the Backyard,’’ by Chris Forhan
“When I looked at a map in town, Rhode Island seemed lost up there in the corner. A state so small and crowded, there didn t seem to be room for a person at all.”
― Michelle Hoover, in the novel
The Quickening
Reading about many people reappraising their work lives because of the pandemic got me thinking about past work lives.
I’ve wondered how much the nature of the work that my ancestors did over the past couple of hundred years – some of it harsh permanently changed their thinking, characters, and personalities and led them to look for other things to do. They were farmers, ministers, boat builders, salt collectors, shoe company owners and managers, engineers, small-town bankers, lawyers, a couple of physicians, and other occupations. Some of the old jobs have pretty much disappeared, such as ha