| Butler Pennsylvania 10
Main Street Clock It was at Jefferson and Main, in the heart of town, in front of the bank where our clock stood proud and solid, on cast iron but upswung and tapered to form a base with ornamental molding up on which the clockwork was housed shrine-like, behind glass with fragments of quartz red 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 there beneath it— still the same as she was then, up on tip-toes, waving? Next Home |
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