Eastern Mennonite School - Shenandoah Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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HARRISONBURG CITY Highest in retail trade volume, this city also reaps the benefits of higher education. We heard her concerts at Wilson Hall and sang a sacred concert in her Methodist Church. With the people we worshiped at Broad Street, First Presbyterian, and Chicago Avenue. We read her Daily Record. Some of her eleven and one-half thousand people mill around Court Square, 1329 feet above sea level, and listen to its millions of starlings clamoring outside a form of government. They are the dissenters. The city—sprawling and compact, sputtering and silent, human and inhuman, secure and insecure—a forest of buildings, burrowed by machinery, rooted in law, and peopled with seed, fruit, and weeds. 13

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The city . . . what is it? This City—“Turkey Capital of the World,” Rockingham County seat, wealthy with twenty-seven million dol- lars in her banks. To us she was a thousand lights winking at night in the distance south- eastern. For fifty cents we taxied in to win- dow-shop at Ney’s, sip a soda at People’s, and bargain at Grant’s. Gitchell’s photo- graphed us and Miles’ sold us records.

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14 It’s not a tight Sandburg city of blue steel; even at 10:30 it’s a lonely one of desolate streets.