Small Town

Index

Adequacy, sense of, 133–35 African Americans as laboring class, x prejudices against, 102–3 Agan family. See Cutter family Agriculture. See Farming Air raids. See Civilian protection Alcoholism. See Drinking The American Spirit (Beard), 21 Anarchy, 223 Anthropologist, insider role v., 9 Antioch College researchers, 108–12, 253 Anti-Semitism, 6, 16, 102–3 Apathy, 135–36 Arguments, handling of, 130–33 Arnold, Thurman, 236 Articulateness, 132–35 Arts interest in, 119 New York City, 249 Arvin, Newton, xvii, 29–30 Atomic energy/bomb, 220, 221–22 Authority, outside, xxxi Automobiles advent of, 55 commuting in, 70–71, 73 decay of community and, 55–56 industry, monopoly of, 190–91 men’s expertise on, 105–6 standard of living and, 196 symbol of, 105 Autonomy, local, xxxi Bacon, Mary, 88 Baptist church, 62, 100, 153–57 Barber shop, 97 Beard, Charles & Mary, 21 Beer drinking. See Drinking Behold Trouble (Hicks), xvii, xxi Bella, Robert, xiv, xv Berry, Wendell, xi Betterton, Mark, 2, 6, 8–9, 70, 79, 116, 117, 141, 150, 171, 172 Bible Belt, 184 Billings, Carl, 141 Black, Al, 2, 3 Blackouts. See Civilian protection Bowling Alone (Putnam), xv Boys’ club, 40–41 Briggs, Joe, 142–43 Brooklyn, New York, 91 Brothers, Rodney, 79 Brownell, Baker, xxii, xxiii, xxxv, 203 Bulletin, bi-weekly, 46, 47, 159, 161. See also Grafton Defender (newsletter) Burnham, James, 209 Capitalism, 118–19 communism and, 34–35, 148–49, 205, 206 free market and, 218–19 laissez-faire, 210 socialism and, 204–5 Cars. See Automobiles Carter family, 83 Cash income, 72–73, 187 Caste system, 247–48 Catalogs, mail-order, 111–12 Categories, mutation of Hicks’s, ix–x, xv Catholic church, 41, 71, 153, 154, 156 Index Centralization, school district, 120–22, 188, 240–43 Change, xxxii goal of mild, 41–42, 41n1 individual initiation of, 194 old-timers and, 112, 121, 129, 200–201 outsiders resistant to, 201 Roxborough natives’ resistance to, 75, 78, 80, 91, 201 in values, 178 Children. See also Education; School district/Schools health examination for, 6 leaving town by adult, 80–83 preparing, 120–22, 146, 230–37, 239, 242–46 Christianity dogmas of, 113–14 ethical teachings of, 146 Churches. See Religious life; specific religions Cistern, building of, 39–40 Cities, big. See also New York City farming and, 96, 193 jobs in, 10, 36, 64, 69, 70, 71–72, 75, 76, 102–4, 175 living in small town and, 104 newspapers of, 109, 112–13 segregation by groups in, 11 small-town people in, 10, 36, 64, 69, 85 small towns v., xxviii–xxx, 36, 69, 73, 113, 192–95, 235 urbanism/urbanization and, ix–x, x, xv, 40 urban knowledge in, 198–200 Citizenship, in society, 239–40 Civilian protection Defense Council/Community League for, xx–xxi, 5, 6, 14, 43–47, 48, 49, 50, 75, 154–55, 159–64, 165, 168, 170, 179 New England system for, 44 “Civilized,” meaning of, 29 Civil War, 54, 64–67, 187, 229 Classes, social, xxvii. See also Middle class in Clifton, Tennessee, 183, 184 determining, 85–90 lower, 86–90, 136–37, 140, 149, 183, 184 middle, 19, 24, 34, 149, 159, 193, 198, 229 of outsiders, 87 religion and, 183 social gatherings and, 89 upper, 86–90, 136–37, 139, 183, 184 Classless society, 90, 151 Clifton, Tennessee, 182–86, 191, 214–15, 231 College education, 233, 236, 238–40 Colonies, expansion of, 52 “Common man,” 203, 221 Communism, 176 capitalism and, 34–35, 148–49, 205, 206 Hicks and, xvii, xix, xxi, 13–14, 30–31, 30n1, 33, 34–35, 39–40, 41, 99, 205–9 Community, 41 Brownell, Baker, on, xxiii decay of, 55–56, 203 democracy and, 254 farming, 185–86 industrial, 104–5 losing, 80 in medieval England, 76 moral good and, xiv neighborhood v., 225 past, xxviii, 77, 79–80, 85 plan, 225 responsibility to, 50 spirit, 180, 183–84, 201–2 value of, xi Vermont as example of, xi–xii Commuting, 70–71, 73, 195 Conflicts, handling of, 130–33 Conveniences, modern, 86, 197, 253 Coolidge, Calvin, 32 Corporations, multinational, ix Corruption, 225 Index 260 Dakin, Harvey, on, 177 fire department, 164–66 in town government, 174–78 Cowley, Malcolm, xvii, xxv, xxxiv Crime, 123–26 Crises, interest in, 99 Criticism, fear of, 127–28 Culture, technology and, 107 Curiosity, 99 Cutter, Arthur, 81 Cutter family, 1, 3, 7, 36–37, 65–67...