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Ipswich on my mind, amusing musings on one of America's oldest, most interesting and, occasionally, most perplexing towns, Bob Waite

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Ipswich on my mind

Bob Waite

amusing musings on one of America's oldest, most interesting and, occasionally, most perplexing towns

While Ipswich On My Mind is superficially a series of vignettes about the author's home town, in the words of Carleton College President Emeritus Steve Poskanzer, "They are also really about the verities of life and change, and the enduring relationships with people and places that matter so much to us all. Bob strikes these chords with resonant power. Unlike Hardy's fictional Wessex, Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha, or (more recently and popularly) Turow's Kindle County, the Ipswich of Bob Waite's youth and the Ipswich of 2022 are very much real and present. But it is the gift of a trenchant observer and great writer to extrapolate from the particular features, characters and lessons of one place to the timeless and universal." Waite, a three- time winner of the New England Newspaper and Press Association's Best Column Award in the ealy 70s, returned to column writing for his local paper at the behest of his 92-year-old former publisher. As this collection attests, the result is a magical concoction of observational humor, soaring imagination, and thoughtful reflection