10 Celebrated Midwesterners Talk Small Town Life | Midwest Living

10 Celebrated Midwesterners Talk Small Town Life

Eclectic, charming, nostalgic. Small towns characterize Midwestern life. Now, they're finally getting the praise they deserve. Famous Midwesterners wax poetic about their love of small-town living.

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"I have spent most of my life in small-town Illinois. It has been good for me to live where I can see a long way in all directions, and where the sky goes on forever. I would not enjoy being hemmed in by mountains, shoved up against an ocean, or surrounded by a desert. The ordered simplicity... has certainly been a big influence in my poetry."

--Poet Dave Etter, artistic statement, "An Illinois Portfolio"

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