St Andrews Presbyterian College - Lamp and Shield / Bagpipe Yearbook (Laurinburg, NC)

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The sign on the highway reads Laur- inburg, All America City, so we pause here a moment or a year, and we meet the All Americans. We drive the broad oak-shaded lanes and absorb the traditionally American small town flavor of it all . . . the children on their bikes, dogs barking after cars, high schoolers with Dad ' s car at the Cone. And as we drive the broad lanes, it is startling to suddenly notice that the houses along the street have become shabbier, the green lawns turned to dirt. Is this the same street? Can these be the same citizens of the same town? One almost feels there should be a sign explaining that each street of All Americans is divided into the first and second teams. But there is no sign, no explanation — this is the way things are in the All Ameri- can city, necessitating no rationale. No reasons are ever offered, nor should they be requested. The houses metamorphize quietly from red brick to rotting boards, the cool asphalt roadwav to dust. The childrens ' fine clothes have become ill fitting rags, the pets a bit less healthy; and one notices that the skins have turned black. S ;-