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Death of a Trailer Park

EDITOR'S NOTE: I originally wrote and published this story on my Lakeville Journal blog on May 2, 2007. That blog is now defunct, so I have re-published it here for anyone who might be interested. I will also republish the comments when I get the chance.

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AMENIA, NY — A tattered American flag on a flimsy stick stuck in the ground next to a pair of weather-beaten pillars is all that’s left of the sad legacy that was Sabo’s trailer park.

Last fall, while commuting to work at Millbrook School (my other job), I passed by the grim site and noticed some C&D dumpsters on Route 44 in front of Sabo’s. For some reason, I didn’t think much of it until, on my return trip to Lakeville, I saw that the trailers and Sabo’s two shabby houses had vanished.

I slowed down and pulled off the highway between Millbrook and Amenia, scarcely able to believe my two eyes. An angel must have descended from heaven to deliver both passersby and the residents of the park from the horrors of having to face that place every day.

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