| Butler Pennsylvania 10
Main Street Clock It was at Jefferson and Main, in the heart of town, in front of the bank that our clock stood solid and proud, on cast iron but upswung and tapered forming a base with ornamental molding upon which the clockwork was housed shrine-like, behind glass with fragments of quartz red, amber and green set in along its edges. It was in our very center in those days when uptown was where all our paths crossed. We looked up to watch time rest into place with a slight jerking of the minute hand. From glances at that solemn face we learned the stinging awareness of our time passing. But who is that I see now forty years later standing underneath it— still the same as she was then, on tip-toes, waving? |
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