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...went to Smith College and she was an art history major, which her mother opposed as foolish. And she's one of those people who is bright but not terribly ambitious. She wound up being a postmistress in this little town, and that went on for years until the Federal government began making ever more regulations. They built a new post office and she couldn't take her animals to work. You can't do this and you can't do that. And she said, the hell with it and walked out, and [went ] back to farming. She turned...
...there are strains. Despite Franklin's repeated entreaties, she refuses to join him overseas, perhaps as wary of hobnobbing with his highly placed friends as of ocean voyages. During his absences, she acts as postmistress, oversees the building of a larger house and turns a deaf ear to attacks by Franklin's political rivals. When Stamp Act rioters threaten her house, Deborah and her brother face them...
...short for Dacron. His brothers are Rayon and Orlon. They are among the neighbors Clea finds when she moves to a Vermont village and discovers that this seemingly idyllic countryside is filled with -- gasp! -- polyester. Down at Casa Loretta, they feature Spam burritos and Hawaiian pizza. The local postmistress steams open love letters, the Avon lady writes bad romance novels, and the sheriff makes pronouncements like "If you're not normal in this country, you get put in jail." Such rural New England cliches make Newhart seem like subtle satire, but Alther recycles them with such a tone of social...
...Welty has always been a superb comic writer. Her well-known early story, Why I Live at the P.O., is a hilarious portrait of sheer cussedness; the narrator, postmistress at "the next to smallest P.O. in the entire state of Mississippi," makes herself so obnoxious to her bizarre kinspeople that she stalks out in a huff and sets up housekeeping at her place of business. The town is then split into those who will patronize the post office and those who refuse to use the mail at all, rather than cross the family...
With fur prices so undependable, there is scarcely a trapper working in Alaska today who does not look for extra income. In the summer, Delia works for the FAA people at the Skwentna airstrip. His wife is postmistress (the post office is in their log home on the Skwentna River), and adds to the family income in that...