![]() ![]() Billy Jack Tate, and younger-man, Texas Ranger hero, Hunter Joseph Scott. picked up Deanne Gist’s Fair Play, a romance novel set during the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and featuring an older, doctor-spinster heroine, Dr. It was with bittersweet nostalgia that Miss B. remembers the warmth of the April sun, her slightly pinch-y, round-toed, white patent-leather Mary Janes, the press of bigger bodies in the queues, the inverted triangle pavilion of her native country, the dazzle of Bohemian crystal in the Czech, the tangy mustard on the hot dog, the fuzzy-pink sweetness of cotton candy. It is in the other senses that our deepest, most visceral memories reside. ![]() But the Internet, at least for now, is strictly visual and aural, and therefore more limited. MissB.’s unsure that such an event would have the same impact in our world of insta-experience on the Internet. would say that anyone whose native city hosts an event of this magnitude holds the experience as a seminal moment in her life. It was 1967: skirts were short music was loud … but Miss B’s mom and friends wore white gloves and hats with their new Easter outfits. ![]() ![]() On Easter Sunday, wearing a white straw bonnet, accompanied by family and friends, she entered its gates. When Miss Bates was a tyke, the circus regularly came to town. ![]()
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