This is part three of a 10-part series of reflections on Eric Sloane’s book on the bicentennial, “The Spirits of ’76.” Each chapter covers a different spirit of America.
Did you ever hang out at the local dump and rummage through the stuff? I certainly did. My father took me there all the time. He loved digging through things and marveling at what people throw away. I swear that he saw this trash as treasure. We never took any home, but he always explained his thinking at every step.
