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Title: Looking for Mayberry
Review: William Least Heat Moon lost his wife and lost his job, so he packed what was left of his life into a minivan, and drove rural America searching for stability. Though he does not mention the name, in essence he tried to find Mayberry, the mythical small town where nothing seems to change, the people are happy, and any strife is superficial enough to be resolved by the end of a half-hour TV episode.He didn't find it. Like Miniver Cheevy, he was born too late.In small town after small town, he was told that he had arrived a couple of decades too late. Half the time, the old timers would tell him that the town had grown too big, and had lost its former charm. The other half of the time, they would tell him that the town had shrunk too small, and lost its former vitality. No place had stayed the same. There was no Mayberry.We can only hope that Least Heat Moon eventually found his Mayberry, at least in his own mind, if not in some small town.
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