Loose Ends: Enjoying the give and take of small-town living

Bailouts — one more reason for living in a small town. It is not government subsidies that are the subject of one more conversation, it is the small town neighborliness of merchants, who tell the customers who need a little loose change help, “Oh, don’t worry about it, just bring it by later.”
This is a very personal service that has been extended to me time and time again, so it was only natural, I…