He's spent the day in New Waterbury, the seat of Wyssock County, expediting the end of one heavily mortgaged marriage after another. Through the horizontal snow gooseshitting his windshield he now sees his own precious house. It is a magnificent three-story Queen Anne, built in 1883 by his great uncle, John W. Aitchbone, the first of the Aitchbones to wisely give up tilling fields in favor of tilling the Ohio Revised Code. He drives past his driveway. No dinner with Karen and kids tonight.
Tonight is too important for that unnatural ritual.
South Mill is Tuttwyler's most impressive street. One of the most impressive streets in the state. It is newly paved with historically accurate burnt-orange bricks. Wide slate sidewalks rise and fall over the roots of grand oaks and maples. Impressive Queen Annes.