In 2004, we emigrated to a small rural town of 350 people in Utah. It was on a par with migrating to a foreign country except that the natives spoke the same language as us. Everything about us was different, as it turned out. We may have been the only registered Democrats in town, if not the entire county. We were not of the predominant Utahn Mormon faith, and therefore did not attend, along with everyone else, the church that dominated the little town. Perhaps most significantly, we were distinguished from all of our neighbors by the fact that we were from Florida; they were all from THERE. One might just as well have designated us as being from some alien nation on the other side of the globe. [My wife had never seen snow before. We moved there in October. The elevation at our home was 5,840 ft. It was snowing before that month ended. We were so enthralled by it, we’d go walking in it. The locals, staring out their windows at us, likely were saying, “There goes that crazy Florida couple.”] Both of us had always lived in the city; this was small town America in spades. There was no home mail delivery, for instance. Every day, I walked to the post office to get my mail from our box. Commercial activity in the town was practically nil. There were no stores. Unlike the two of us, who had always been reliant upon others to repair things when they malfunctioned, these people were all quite self-reliant. I was the only male in town without his own workshop stocked with tools and the knowledge of how to employ them. Yet we managed to worm our way into their good graces and we benefited from and participated in their neighborly, hard-working perspective on life. We may have returned in 2018 to Florida, but that little town has a special nook in my memory.
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