The Neighborhood

Home of the Brave

Scott Carrier

Society And Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It seems more of us are paying attention to our neighborhoods lately, so perhaps this is a good time to replay this story, produced in 1988. I still live in the same neighborhood, but it feels different now. It’s like there was a tall tree in my front yard but now the tree is gone and only a stump remains. I am stumped. I used to depend on trust—standing or sitting close to strangers and holding a microphone less than a foot from their faces. Now that’s not going to happen again for a while.

In the meantime, here’s to remembering the good old days.

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0:00.0	That's my dog.
0:02.0	my dog.
0:03.0	He's
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0:12.0	That's my dog. He's okay. And these are tapes I made in my neighborhood.
0:18.0	Some are sounds I recorded around my house. Some are things I taped off the radio,
0:24.2	and others are interviews with my neighbors.
0:27.5	I live at 74 G Street, Salt Lake City, Utah,
0:31.2	and this program is my neighborhood scrapbook.
0:34.0	I think I should like to use those marvelous words written by Parlepy Prapped as something of a theme.
0:47.0	The morning breaks, the shadows flee, low Zion's standard is unfurled. The dawning of a brighter day majestic
0:58.3	rises on the world. The clouds of air disappear before the rays of truth divine.
1:07.0	The glory bursting from a far wide o'er of the nation soon will shine. A Okay, well, I would wonder what my house is like from somebody who comes in from the outside.
1:48.7	And so I try to meet it that way a lot of the time.
1:51.7	When I meet it from the outside outside I'm real puzzled by it.
1:57.0	This isn't the house that I thought I was designing for myself, but it's the house that happened up around me.
2:05.0	This table's gone through 17 moves,
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