Abstract
The seminal studies of Robert and Helen Lynd on Middletown (Muncie, Indiana) strongly influenced the author as a young high school student who grew up in Muncie. In time, he realized that the quantitative research of the Lynds (and later Theodore Caplow) accurately but incompletely captured his real experience. Over time, the author broadened his perspective, and these poems are the result of years of shaping narratives into a collection that reflects the growth of a small-town mind, not a disparaging phrase but an accurate reflection of the state of mind that keeps some people in their first communities.
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