I grew up in a small subdivision out by Lake Paradise, outside Mattoon, Illinois, called Carrollton Estates. Carrollton Estates was a fancy name for a collection of five or six houses loosely tied together by a gravel road that ran aside, in front of or around whatever your property was; you didn't so much own a house as much as you owned a plot of land that could have a house on it, if you ever got around to it. My dad bought the land in 1979 and went to work on constructing his family a home. He wheeled me out a black-and-white television that I watched while sitting on a folding chair as power tools whirred all around me. Ours was one of the first houses built out there, and we moved in shortly after my sister was born in April 1980.
Volume 2, Issue 71: Cold Slope
Volume 2, Issue 71: Cold Slope
Volume 2, Issue 71: Cold Slope
I grew up in a small subdivision out by Lake Paradise, outside Mattoon, Illinois, called Carrollton Estates. Carrollton Estates was a fancy name for a collection of five or six houses loosely tied together by a gravel road that ran aside, in front of or around whatever your property was; you didn't so much own a house as much as you owned a plot of land that could have a house on it, if you ever got around to it. My dad bought the land in 1979 and went to work on constructing his family a home. He wheeled me out a black-and-white television that I watched while sitting on a folding chair as power tools whirred all around me. Ours was one of the first houses built out there, and we moved in shortly after my sister was born in April 1980.