The first thing you notice is the engine. A low growl that doesn't belong to anything built this decade. Then the truck itself comes around the bend toward the Mast General Store in Knoxville, Tennessee, all steel and patina, a 1996 military cargo hauler that has clearly lived more than one life. It...
The boat ramp at Saylorville Lake Marina, Polk City, Iowa. Patches of dark soil, dried vegetation, and reddish-brown weeds caught between the stones of the riprap embankment. A man backs an eighteen-foot bowrider down the concrete in under two minutes. Quiet competence, earned from doing something...
