The Man of the Moderation

Stratford, a town Alice knew very well had reinvented itself by putting a Shakespeare festival in there. But before that it was falling apart because it used to be a train switching station town and then that all kind of went. And this was a factory town and the factory closed. Yeah. It's falling apart so much that Sadie's family wouldn't even come to shop there anymore by the end of the story. I think there was a period in them 60, 70s before those kinds of old small towns got it into their heads that now they were quaint when things just were hollowing out.