What We Lost When Gannett Came To Town [theatlantic.com]
By Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, October 5, 2021 T he grain elevator exploded on a cool April morning in 1987, six years before I was born. My father was testing a clay sample in a lab two miles away when suddenly the dial jumped. He ran outside, thinking that a car had smashed into the building. My mother, doing yard work at home, assumed that the nearby ammunition plant was testing a new explosive. Dale Alison saw the blast up close. He was 32 years old, and it was his first day as the...