BAD ROADS. When my sister Mary Hockin came back from India, I asked her what surprised her, and she spoke of poor infrastructure and especially poor roads. My cousin Judy Bennett sent me this post about Russia. Malcolm Gladwell described the importance of the little known King Road Drag in making possible decent dirt roads in America in the early part of the twentieth century, thereby making possible the success of parcel post and the Sears Roebuck catalog.
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We had a dirt road running past the house in Buckingham until 1998 or so. They leveled it off, widened it, and put this fine gravel dust-type stuff on top after the state took up maintenance of it. Before that there was a collection drive amongst residents along the road every year.
The clay did get pretty hairy after heavy rains, but thank God it never got as bad as that muck! One time I remember Dad having to tow the truck out of some ruts with the tractor. Yee-haw! It astounds me how hard it must have been to carve out the first roads before things like dynamite and large earth-movers.
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roads, including the muddy Russian one.
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