Middle West

On the Corner of Myth and Main

by Walter Kirn,

There was a time when I didn’t know that I lived in Middle America. When I was very young, growing up in eastern Minnesota, I thought I was just an…

by Ted Conover,

The vanishing breed of the country vet

by Peter S., Bearman, James Moody, Katherine Wellesley Stovel,

by Lucas Helder,

by Ben Metcalf,

by Larry Schwarm,

Drawn by Peter Steiner,

by Richard Rhodes,

by Don Sharp,

Reaping where thou hast not sown

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