Michael Malone - Weebly

disliked. And the problem of the discontinued
connector had caused him the unpleasantness of
alienating a number of people. Not that he had done so
deliberately, but things had, as he generally phrased it,
gotten rather complicated.
Three years after his dealings with the nation, the
state (still in what all Ransoms considered the
disturbingly itchy hands of Democrats) had proposed to
connect Route 3 to the interstate that ran twenty miles
to the north. As a result (the result upon which Hawk
Haig had bought his land and built his future),
vacationers would have driven right by Dingley Falls to
Lake Pissinowno or farther west into other lovely
scenery, rather than entirely bypassing the town to the
northwest (as members of Dingley Falls's Historical
Society hoped they would continue to do). And after
the confetti of red tape had settled over the State
House, an engineering report appeared. It proposed a
route through the southeast corner of Ernest Ransom's
land, which, since the site in question did not directly
overlap the land he had leased earlier to the federal
government, he was happy enough to sell. Construction