What The Fight Over A Rural Library Says About America

“I didn’t realize it at first, but thefight over the library was rolled up into a bigger one about the librarybuilding, and an even bigger fight than that, about the countygovernment, what it should pay for, and how and whether people should betaxed at all. The library fight was, itself, a fight over the future ofrural America, what it meant to choose to live in a county like mine,what my neighbors were willing to do for one another, what they werewilling to sacrifice to foster a se