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So it was not free of problems, but it was really, from my life, very much like Leave it to Beaver, quite honestly. My grandfather used to say - he was an old glass man from western Pennsylvania - and when he would come to visit he would say that he never saw a town with more churches and more bars. There's always been problems, there's always been small-town scandals, and there's always been an element of poverty, a fair amount of drinking in Lancaster. Which is not to say there were not problems. And everything was in this state of almost Utopian equilibrium, and for the most part it really was like that. How?Īfter World War II, Forbes devoted almost its entire 30th anniversary issue to Lancaster, Ohio, of all places, and positioned Lancaster as the epitome and the apogee of the all-American town - a sort of perfect balance between large industry, agriculture small businesses, like retail and merchants and so on. Your purchase helps support NPR programming.
Alexander says on Election Day one Lancaster woman told him she voted for Trump because she wanted "it to be like it was."Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Glass House Subtitle The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town Author Brian Alexander "The economy of the town is struggling, not because there's high unemployment, because the employment that there is all minimum wage, or even lower than minimum wage."įairfield County, in which Lancaster is located, went 61 percent for Donald Trump in the presidential election - a fact that Alexander attributes to the candidate's message of disaffection. "People are genuinely struggling," he tells Fresh Air's Dave Davies. Lancaster native Brian Alexander chronicles the rise and fall of his hometown in his new book, Glass House. Though Anchor Hocking remains in Lancaster today, it is a shell of its former self, and the once thriving town is beset by underemployment and drug abuse. At its peak following World War II, Lancaster's hometown company was the world's largest maker of glassware and employed more than 5,000 town residents. Lancaster, Ohio, the home of the Fortune 500 company Anchor Hocking, was once a bustling center of industry and employment. (Nov.Once a thriving factory town, Lancaster, Ohio is now beset by underemployment and drug abuse. This is one to read with all the lights on.
This is a profoundly discomfiting and pessimistic exploration of a deeply damaged man, and when Bassoff ( Corrosion) invokes real-world horrors alongside the fantastical ugliness of Factory Town and its inhabitants, he suggests that similar foulness is common to all people. Carver’s story is filled with stomach-turning descriptions of violence and grotesque characters, and shot through with despair.
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Vicious criminal Russell Carver, searching for a lost girl, progresses through the sordid darkness of Factory Town, a post-apocalyptic “town of sin, town of sadness, town of hatred.” He wades through a hallucinatory world of threatening men, victimized women, and vulnerable children, while constantly haunted by the deeds of his abusive father and his own past behavior, the full horror of which is slowly disclosed over the course of his nightmarish journey. The backstory to these strange events unfolds as in a terrible dream. In the middle of the night, a desperate man breaks into a house, confronts the woman who lives there, and shoots himself in the head.
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