[A]nd the government condemned their land. An old man told me recently that his aunt, a single woman in old age, refused to leave her house. "She just kept going back there," he said. "They'd come and take her away, and pretty soon she'd be back. Finally, they had to go down there and break all the windows out of the house to get her to leave." The signs read Recreation Area. Her house is underneath it somewhere.
Remember this story when we read the Kelo case next semester.
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