Country Life: Trash Talking - Richard Brookhiser remarks upon the rigors of ...

May 19, 2012 | "Bag" is construed loosely: As many bags as you can stuff into a contractor bag and seal with a twist-tie counts as only one. Once upon a time the dump was a smoldering slope southeast of town where people simply pitched everything, releasing smoke and toxins into the pure mountain air. you pay with tickets, which may be purchased at the town hall or the dump itself (checks only -- which suggests someone once skimmed the cash). My town has a transfer station -- universally called the dump -- and unless you pay for a service to pick up your waste, you must take it there yourself. Every bag of unsortable costs a small charge to leave. The categories into which we sort are glass, metal, paper, plastic, free stuff, and unsortable. But even the country is green now, and we recycle, though the dump is still a funky place. Everything else, glass and the rest of it, can be left off gratis. (Garbage trucks, one would think from their name, play a role. ) In the country we are more intimate with our own detritus. Read more »

At , WASHINGTON LODGE MASONIC TEMPLE 1515 TEN ROD RD, NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI

Jul 20, 2011 | early brass fireplace fender; period garden urn – old paint; 9” redware dish – possibly East Greenwich, RI; 1949 rooster weathervane; 4 Netsukes; Val St. Lambert pitcher; wooden wheel barrows; wire display pc; Japanese Champleve vase; Spode, Derby,