out a mew

A town in the making is well on its way where a mix of locals and refugees stay. We've planned all its contours to make it so that one can walk across in a half hour flat. There are but few roadways for a motor car, the rest they are made of stone pavers – not tar. The housing won't be more than four stories tall and gets much warm sunshine in winter and fall in the warmer months though it stays nice and cool and there are a number of small public pools. Such shops as one needs for to lead a good life sell foodstuff cloth hat shoe toothpaste soap and knife; they will accept barter or labor for goods will swap rice for garments or hand-tools for wood. To live there one must join a soviet crew to clean up a meadow or rake out a mew to maintain the sewage or help raise a barn to learn how to entertain with a spun yarn. A third of the people who'll live in this town escaped from such countries as war has torn down; two thirds are Grigovians gentle and kind who hold an humanity first in the mind. This is an experiment but we believe that with it we'll provide a welcome reprieve to people from within and those from without who have for too long yearned for such a redoubt. So come have a gander and do stay a while be ready to work and to wear a big smile for ours is a mixing pot crazy and real yet we all believe it's a pretty good deal.

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