I have faint memories of hearing Gunsmoke on car radio on Sunday drives. Taking a drive on Sunday was a thing my Daddy forced us to do. Sometimes we went somewhere cool, like Gatlinburg. Most of the time, we seemed to wander aimlessly through the land.

I have no memory of hearing radio programs like Jack Benny or The Shadow in our home. We got television when I was five and I remember Howdy Doody, Pinky Lee and Winky Dink. And Romper Room, which even as a child, I thought was lame.

I got XM radio in order to listen to Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour. Turned out, I did not get to hear a lot of Bob, due to the times his show played. But, I discovered channel 82 that plays OTR shows24 hours. I often have it on.

Right now, I have found a website that has over 300 episodes of "Vic and Sade" which has, for a time, replaced "Johnny Dollar" as my favotite OTR show.

Two aspects of the triumph of the "bourgeois family" have had a profound effect on society: first is the capricious yearning for the so-called "better life," which has resulted in a highly trained cadre of consumers, and second, an increasing lack of significance attached to the concepts of "place," and family. These two factors have played an important role in a society that has become acclimated to a rather pernicious spiritual condition that theologian, David Schindler, refers to as "homelessness."

Kentucky essayist, poet, and novelist Wendell Berry has given his readers a glimpse of people who lived the "old ways." In six novels and twenty-three short stories Berry has created the Port William membership, a group of neighbors who live along the ridges and "bottoms" south of "the river" in and around Port William, Kentucky, a town that never was yet always existed in our hearts.

Let the point of extreme depression to which our national dignity and credit have sunk, let the inconveniences felt everywhere from a lax and ill administration of government, let the revolt of a part of the State of North Carolina, the late menacing disturbances in Pennsylvania, and the actual insurrections and rebellions in Massachusetts, declare--!