winter farm auction 1.2016 Mt Gilead, Ohio (folio of six broadsides)

Where do you go when the signs don’t point anymore?  where do you go except back where you came from? I can’t tell you how many people have lost track of where they were going. How many people are not too sure of where they are from?  But I can tell you that it’s a farm or a little town and that little towns are mighty big places to be from. The smaller they are the bigger they are to be from. But they never get big enough to hold all the men that left them-- the roads lead back --the travel is still the other way".                  

Wright Morris, The Inhabitants