The Border
"Power …
resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state”
The East
Vershire
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All over, again: The dying and reviving village
Delmar
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Peace across the
vista line
Mardela Springs
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The town that made rusty water famous
Marydel
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Politics, pumps, and a lady’s honor
Sylmar
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The line between states, between states of
mind, at the edge of language
Pen Mar
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Summer ghosts and sacred edges
Nypenn
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The Traveler in his labyrinth
The South
Virgilina
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The apotheosis of the Tucks
Alaga
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Wiregrass and the Chattahoochee Bridge
Florala
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General Jackson on the Shore of Gondwanaland
Alaflora
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Heart pine heartland
Flomaton
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All quiet on the southern front
Missala, Alabama
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The solace of leaves
Missala, Mississippi
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The railroad, the roadhouse, and the nudist
camp: Heavy and dark and alive
Texla
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The new South in the arms of the old
Appalachia
Penowa
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Commies in the tavern, and edge names from
Hell to Breakfast
Kentenia
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The robber barons of Kingdom Come
Kenvir
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Map lines, picket lines, color lines
Kensee
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Fog and weeds reclaim the hollow
Tennelina
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Life and death on
Shut-in Creek
Carotenn
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Gandy dancing to
the lost cove
Tennga
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Sing, goddess, the wrath of Junaluska
Shores
Carova Beach
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By sand and by sound
Vir-Mar Beach
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Treasure the Chesapeake
Michiana and Michiana Shores
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What time is it in Indiana?
Dakomin
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In which the Lindquist brothers run a
stern-wheeler on the Continental Divide
Big Rivers
Kenova
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Hard-working rivers, railroad to freedom
North Kenova
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The wandering border that the ice made
Mondak
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The three rivers, the gunslingers, and John
Philip Sousa
Illmo
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What the river
gave
Tennemo
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Bear wrestling on
shaky ground
Tall Grass
Illiana, Edgar County
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Copperheads and Red Raven
Illiana, Vermilion County
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On the train with Abe Lincoln
Illiana Heights
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Bull-Bonus
and the Grand Marais
Mokan
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Fear and loathing by the swans’ way
The Delta
Arkla and Laark
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Crossing soggy ground
Armorel
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Mr. Wilson’s towns, and spliced eponyms from
Saybrook to Saspamco
Arkmo
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To the Frisco station
Moark, Missouri
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Between a Peach Orchard and a Frisbee
Moark, Arkansas
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The first high ground across the line
South By Southwest
Latex
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Goodnight, Huddie
Arkana
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Jukeboxes, alchemy, rototillers, and other
tragedies
Texarkana
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Two hearts beat in ragged time
Artex
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Information and its discontents
Arkinda
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On the Choctaw lines
Arkoma - Loansharks, tattoos, and Miss Laura’s
Panhandles
Texola
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Oasis on the Mother Road
Texico
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From the Peavine to Peggy Sue
Texhoma
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A tale of two panhandles
Mexhoma
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Cimarron roots and the edge of empire
Oklarado
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Within a blooming grove
Great Plains
Colokan and Kanco
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The Star of Western Kansas
Kanorado
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Dakoming
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Dodging federal regulations ’mid disporting
flamingos
Monota
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The Red Menace, with lutefisk
Alsask
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The Great Lone Land, the burning elevator
The Rockies
Colmex
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The Denver & Rio Grande on the River of
Lost Souls
Wyocolo
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The stock swindle, woman suffrage, and
getting high in the Medicine Bows
Monida
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Where the rivers change direction
Idmon
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Thunder coming up over the land
Basins & Ranges
Wyuta
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Across the Wasatch with the Saints, the UP, and
the Lincoln Highway
Utida
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The Snake and the Bear
Ucolo and Urado
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Safflowers and Indians on the Great Sage
Plain
Uvada, Utah
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Battles at the end of the line, murders on
the margins
Uvada, Nevada
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The loneliest road, the pleasant valley, the
Pony Express
Idavada
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Between sheets in the Empty Quarter
Calvada
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Truckee Canyon, Range of Light
Calneva
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The desert rats of Nataqua
Calor, Orcal, and Calor - Down and out in Jefferson
Deserts
Calvada Springs
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Fewer inconveniences than Hell
Calada
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Lucy
Gray meets Saint Audrey
Cal-Nev-Ari
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And the flyer home from the sky
Calzona
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In the country of the greasewood
La Frontera
Naco
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I sing the boundary electric
Calexico
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Flow
Mexicali
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“The edge will reveal the center. The edge will reveal ourselves.”
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