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“THE GREAT ENEMY OF FREEDOM IS THE ALIGNMENT OF POLITICAL POWER WITH WEALTH. THIS ALIGNMENT DE- STROYS THE COMMONWEALTH - THAT IS, THE NATURAL WEALTH OF LOCAL- ITIES AND THE LOCAL ECONOMIES OF HOUSEHOLD, NEIGHBORHOOD, AND COMMUNITY - AND SO DESTROYS DE- MOCRACY, OF WHICH THE COMMON- WEALTH IS THE FOUNDATION AND PRACTICAL MEANS.” - WENDELL BERRY WHEN DID 14
AN EXCERPT FROM ARE YOU ALL RIGHT? a chapter of “Fidelity: Five Stories” The spring work had started, and I needed a long night’s rest, or that was my opinion, and I was about to go to bed, but then the telephone rang. It was Elton. He had been getting ready for bed, too, I think, and it had occurred to him then that he was worried. “ANDY YOU SEE THE ROWANBERRY’S?” I knew what he had on his mind. The river was in flood. The backwater was over the bottoms, and Art and Mart would not be able to get out except by boat or onfoot. “Not since the river came up.” “Well, neither have I. And their phone’s out. Mary, when did Mart call up here?” 15
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