Isms: Views on life in rural America

A recent article in “The Daily Yonder,” had the following sub-headline: Want to better understand rural people and how we think? Try taking a peek in our freezers.”

Please don’t.

When we moved to town 11 years ago, we brought an upright freezer filled with bags of nature’s bounty and jars of homemade freezer jams, salsa and spaghetti sauce. The appliance took up permanent residence in one of the garages. A new black side-by-side Whirlpool refrigerator offered enough freezer space to keep necessities like ice cream and multiple packages of meat in the house. On occasion, I’d toss a bag of lefto...