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I grew up in Eminence, Kentucky, the kind of small town that people remember as an idyllic remnant of a former age. This was a place where everyone knew each other, watched out for each other, brought each other vegetables in season. We didn’t always lock our doors, because we felt secure under our neighbors’ watchful eyes.
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Barton, K.C. (2014). Legacies of the Chat-N-Nibble. In: Woyshner, C. (eds) Leaders in Social Education. Leaders in Educational Studies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-665-3_2
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