Connecticut A surprise for anyone living in Fairfield County is Long Ridge Union Cemetery, a tiny rural burial ground in Stamford, near the New York line.
The book describes the narrator's rural home ground in central New York State, and when the 90-year-old Irene Leahy describes the woods and fields and the plants that grow there, she strikes a responsive chord with me.
Among Clemente's previous clashes: cutting short a reporter who tried to validate himself by saying he'd "seen a lot of football": "The cows at Lezama [Athletic Bilbao's rural training ground] watch football every day, and they haven't got a fucking clue either".
"Oh those are funny, I got those from a cemetery, which sounds really awful, but actually they were temporary crosses that were put up in a rural burial ground before real tombstones could be put in," she said.
But the cemetery was quickly overshadowed by leafy, more rural burial grounds outside the city, and in recent years became choked with chest-high weeds.
Paul Osterman, an MIT professor who studies part-time and low-wage work, notes that Walmart comes out of the rural south, infertile ground for unionising, but is trying to move into more heavily unionised cities, particularly in the north-east.
Instead, the combined accidents of history and geography turned this quiet rural city into ground zero for a Third World War.
In suburban and rural zones, the ground floor of the trano gasy is often reserved as a pen for livestock, while the family inhabits the upper floors.
So when he's not out on the road, Von Till pays the bills by working as an elementary school teacher in rural Idaho – a grounding in the everyday that offers a counterbalance to the radicalism of Neurosis's hermetic world.
Most small, arboreal frugivores and omnivores, and insectivores that fed from tree trunks, showed greater persistence in the mixed-rural habitat than ground dwelling bird species, which were affected most by disturbance.
