“I disagree that Iowa was much like our existence, except that it was middle class. But in virtually every other respect it was nothing like what I grew up in. Even just the geography. Nobody in Iowa says, “Take a left at the light.” It was, “Go south, go west, you’ll find the gas on the east side of the barn.” I was always fascinated by the way people spoke. They were always saying, “Go up to so and so.” “We went up to Boyle’s to talk.” Whereas where I grew up it was always, “We went over there.” We didn’t go “up” to there. Just little things like that that were, I don’t know, fascinating to me.

–Jon Kravetz '74