Home Town (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Tracy Kidder
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Sociology
- Setting: Northampton, Massachusetts
- Principal Characters: Thomas Francis “Tommy” O’Connor, Bill O’Connor, Jane O’Connor, Rick Janacek, Jean Kellogg, Mary Ford, W. Michael Ryan, Alan Scheinman, Samson Rodriguez, Carmen, Laura Baumeister, Benjamin, Ellie Rothman, Ron Hall, Suzanne, Jonathan Edwards
- Genres: Nonfiction, Sociology
- Subjects: Police, Social life, New England, College life, Small-town life
- Locales: Northampton, MA
Northampton, Massachusetts, a small city of around thirty thousand—the size of Plato’s ideal city- state—sits on the Connecticut River roughly in the center of the state and has done so for over 341 years. It is home to Smith College, a prestigious women’s school. Its tree-shaded streets, historic town center, spirit of civic involvement; its history and its appearance; its tolerance, despite its New England Puritan background, for difference—all contribute to making it perhaps as ideal a hometown as one might imagine. It is a town that works as successfully as any city works...
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