Tarpots bubbled over driftwood fires where men calked the seams of smacks and shallops and patched their dugout canoes.

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Still others claimed that the unusual Moose Javian culture — its history as “Little Chicago,” a sin city, a raucous industrial town in the agricultural heartland — produced this edgy new “urban” literature.

John married his high-school sweetheart in 1981.