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Mar 4, 2014

"A good community is a good local economy. It depends upon itself for many of its essential needs and is thus shaped, so to speak, from the inside." --Wendell Berry

The Work of Local Culture

According to Wendell Berry, a human community must exert a sort of centripetal force, holding local soil and local memory in place. It has no work more important than this. This beautiful essay invites you to take a walk with Berry past an old family bucket and into a new view of human culture...