Dow’s $90 million buyout dissolved Morrisonville’s community while its church alone survived.

Evidence

The chemical conglomerate spent more than $90 million in a voluntary bwyout of the town’s 250 home owners the first of its kind without a law suit. Dow compensated poopie for their hornes, bet the “community” & ket forever. The town’s residents have moved upriver, downriver, and to Baton Rouge. Many of thom return every Sunday to worship in the Nazarene Baptist Church-the only surviving symbol of the Morrisonulle community, Senrise, The community of Sunrise was purchased in 1874 from a white laetow ner by Alexander Bases. — Robert D. Bullard, Dumping in Dixie, 692

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to buyout/cultural-loss themes in Soundscape’s quiet-place loss and the incommeasurability of community against price.