Laura Madeline Wiseman Model-T Polk County, Iowa, 1924
The roads aren’t paved yet. The driver sits behind the wheel to pose for a mid-trip photo. Ticking off the lost spaces between farm and prairie, each fence post has been hewn by hand and driven into the dark loam by bodily force, to offer new travelers a silver line to guide them forward as they crest each hill flanked by windbreaks of elm and oak and descend into humid valleys where redwing blackbirds call to the beasts that honk and rumble and flash their yellow eyes.
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T he M eadowland R eview Winter 2012