Off the Wagon

Fell off the wagon, got on eBay and bid on two Hobart High School yearbooks (1926 and 1927). Just found out I won them. Well, that's eighteen bucks I didn't need to spend. I intend to offer them to the Hobart Historical Society.

I suppose I will be talking about Hobart somewhat, since Ainsworth has always been in its shadow and has now been gobbled up entirely by it. I'll be talking of Merrillville, too — incidentally, because Big Maple Lake park is in Merrillville. As if these ephemeral political boundaries had any bearing on the emotions evoked by the roads and fields and houses and ruins and railroad tracks that surround me. You walk east on Ainsworth Road and cross the boundary from Hobart to Merrillville and nothing changes.