“Each day, trucks arrive at the Soil Bank from 7 am until 1 pm, with the last truck no later than 1:30. The materials they deposit are delivered to a screener via front-end loader and sifted before they are homogeneous enough for reuse.”

“I ventured out into the sick world to take leave of the city and spend a week with my old friend Annie at her cabin on the North Fork of Long Island.”