"It was the essence of small-town Midwest America," said Grant Wacker, an associate professor of church history at Duke Divinity School, who grew up in the same neighborhood as the Ashcrofts and went to their church.
"I thought it was the essence of a small town," Ms. McAndrews said.
The essence of these small towns is a reliance on coal and Friday night high school football.
'He took the colour and essence of the small towns and used it in his buildings,' architect and musician Rene Torres tells me later over a drink.
He wanted to preserve the essence of a small Midwestern place, but also to imprint it with his own imagination, which is God for any true artist.
In a sense, the shirt captures the modern-day essence of the small town that was about eight miles behind us — its un-slick marketing wins you over.
You'll often discover the essence of a small town at its Historical Society Museum, and Taneytown MD is case in point.
It was, in essence, the failure of small target politics, where both parties were scrambling for the middle ground and focused on attacking the other side.
The photo captures the essence of what every small business needs — an infusion of cash generated from a notable order.
Wrote CEO John T. Dillon in a memo to employees: "Beyond the instant tragedy associated with this wanton destruction, these events strike at the essence of what makes small-town communities so special.
