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scene from harlan county, nov 2009

I wish I hadn’t been driving and had my camera out when Thomas saw the population sign for Loyall. Absolute pricelessness. He saw the sign, and I slowed down so he could read it, “Pop-yoo-lay-shun…Am I reading that right?” — look of abject horror on his face — “766?!” Yes, honey, you’re reading it right. “Are you sure?” Yes, honey. During the last census, it was my job to map and collect addresses in Loyall. “Oh. It’s right then.”

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Posted by Mari on Wednesday, December 2, 2009, at 9:41 am. Filed under writing. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. MG Ellington | December 4, 2009 at 5:43 am | Permalink

    I don't envy the census takers.

  2. Mari | December 4, 2009 at 7:07 am | Permalink

    I was just an "address collector" and mapper. I get a kick out of looking at current maps of Harlan County and thinking, "It looks that way because I helped make sure it looks that way." The job was fun. :) I love stuff like that.