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What was it like to grow up as the son of a Kodak engineer during
the company's glory days? Decker presents a vivid portrait of life
in the Rochester suburbs where residents eagerly conformed to
period expectations: two kids, two cars, a move from a snug
middle-class neighborhood to a spacious upper-middle-class
subdivision. In recollecting the blithe and troubled scenes of
America's postwar prosperity, Decker evokes a bygone era with rich
detail and biting clarity. Depicting the banalities of the place
and time, Kodak Elegy narrates a political education shaped by the
Civil Rights Movement, John F. Kennedy's assassination, the Vietnam
War, and the constant threat of nuclear exchange. Concerned
throughout with the destructive forces masked by American affluence
and idealism, Decker closes with a meditation on the 1995 Oklahoma
City bombing, a crime perpetrated by a Western New Yorker in the
state where the author has long made his home. Chronicling the late
fifties through early seventies, Kodak Elegy delves into the
stories of aging relatives and neighborhood life in the old city
core. The author traces his family connections with the Hudson
Valley's Dutch settlements and Rochester's German-American
immigrant community, the force behind the area's horticultural
renown. He highlights his family's ties with Eastman Kodak, the
source of Rochester's twentieth-century wealth and civic pride. In
the vein of American Beauty and Revolutionary Road, Decker mines
the landscape of his suburban upbringing and uncovers the thwarted
dreams of family and friends, recovering in the process his dream
of escape as well as his own residual attachment to the utopian
vision of the ""Kodak Moment.
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The ANIMAL Alphabet
Winifred Channing; William Decker
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