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Ruralist Lament: The curse of memory By Richard RhamesFormer Biddeford City Councilor Share This was the week of Maine’s annual Agricultural Trade Show; a week where in pre-plague times those with a “sense of humus” would journey to Augusta. We’d kick tires on manure spreaders, perhaps fondle the cables on logging winches, and attend programs focused on various farm/forest sectors. We’d confer about the latest invasive pest, get the latest bad news about the climate, our slog toward a New Eocene Epoch, and receive the latest snake-oil on the virtues of entrepreneurialism. Gotta luv it. Sadly, due to our free-market health care “system,” our premodern 18th century governing structure, and our devotion to private profit over public good, Plague reigns and this year’s trade show was merely “virtual.” Alas. Those tires will not get kicked this year, nor could I stop by the dairy booths to get the most recent numbers on the steady decline in dairy farm operations.

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