A Place for the Malaise

America is a place to find one’s place: for the fearless ready to start the beginnings of a new life from overseas; for those escaping persecution looking to her shores for refuge; for those who see her singular place in the world as one where dreams can be fulfilled unhindered by the trappings of social or economic status. Even in the western migration — most notably the Great American Land Run of 1889 — men and women dropped their apprehensions and past eastern life along the dirty, crowded streets to find a new life, a new place, as a center of a community with only their vision of a better tomorrow as a guide.