Jamaica Plain & Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Wish
Connolly Branch Library 433 Centre St., Jamaica Plain, MA, United StatesWhile completing his latest book, Alex Krieger realized that his own neighborhood of Jamaica Plain is emblematic of a number of American ideals. Not least of which is the yearning to achieve what observers of American culture have called the “ middle landscape,” or “middle state,” or more philosophically as the “ethic of the middle link.” Best expressed by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his lament, “I wish for rural strength and religion, and city facility…