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You’re reading Dispatch Culture, our weekend newsletter featuring essays about American culture, staff recommendations, book reviews, and more.
Happy Saturday!
If you’re an American, you’ve probably entered or at least glimpsed a bait shop from the road. In today’s American Artifacts, the Colorado-based writer Cliff Watson reflects on his own childhood bait shop, and how, at its best, it’s not just a place to buy lures but to build community.
