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In the spring of 2021, Neil King Jr. went for a long walk, stepping out from his home in the nation’s capital and into the greater world.
King, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who reported from more than 50 countries, mostly chose the slim shoulders of suburban roads as his trail, and the light of distant Walmarts as his guiding star. He set off to see and understand a splintered America, walking through Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York — finishing his 26-day exercise “in sustained attention and observation” in Central Park.
“This was not a nature walk,” King, 63, told The Inquirer recently. “This was very much a human walk.”American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewalon April 18 to discuss his experiences in a conversation with former Daily News and Inquirer editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson. King spent most of his ramble in Pennsylvania, crossing the Mason-Dixon Line into York County from Maryland, then crossing Susquehanna into Lancaster County, one of the nation’s busiest farming counties. He delves deeply into the state’s role in history, its geography, and role as a swing state.“The beauty of the whole of it — the low sun, the silos like exclamation points studding the hills — made me let out a holler and do a little dance,” King wrote of Lancaster County farmland.
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