On the first block of Wilson Street in Batavia, IL, you can drink from a water fountain and rest on a cast-iron bench. Potted flowers bloom around you.
Downtown is quiet, quaint, normal.
Not many people can do it. I like people who have that attitude toward independence. This is what I am. Following his father's death in the late 1970s, Craig gave up carpentry to work at the Tonsorial Parlor full-time. The newsletter has contained requests for pictures of kids' first Tonsorial Parlor haircuts to remembrances of customers past, to a recipe for Mrs. Moldovan's Romanian Nut Roll.