It was in Tennessee, Gump Spring Mountain, outside Spartacus, Tennessee. I was living with a family, Grundy and Mary Young, and the whole mountain, this small mountain outside Spartacus, was populated with the Young family. And Grundy, who was maybe 42, and his brothers had started a small dairy operation. They made their livings through […]

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 […]

I mean, it was an experiment. It was the first — he chose topics to study that he sort of felt would be important. He chose the political scientist’s point of view. He wanted to study the courts. He wanted to study the schools. He wanted to study [police and health care]. Yes and what […]

Rusty Day mentioned at some point that probably the intensity of the program was such that probably not a month would go by in our lives from then forward that we wouldn’t at some point think about and talk about the experience to somebody. I don’t know whether that’s true of everyone, but certainly it […]