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Home building woes and ached for shelter in hard times
A reflective column critiquing postwar housing shortages and rising costs. It contrasts the dream of homeownership with the reality of scarce materials and high prices, noting veteran housing and makeshift shelters. The piece weaves in New England notes and a book spotlight on John Kieran’s Footnotes To Nature.
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New England
Booth Tarkington
Kenneybank
Maine
Bar Nuthin Ranch
Ogonquit
Wentworth-by-the- Sea
Portsmouth
N. H
John Kieran
Colummn
John