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In this collection of essays, scientific writer Leaf focuses on the history, present and future of her hometown, North Branch, Minnesota. The result is an engrossing look at the web of life encircling a Midwestern farming community. Leaf considers the town from multiple perspectives, among them those of her own house, the local library archives, an elderly resident and the town cemetery, where hunting for the headstones of past residents provokes her to wonder "what remaine...Log In or Sign Up to Read More