Granger Awards and Honors

Awards & Honors · The Grantors' Rolls, Run Class by Class

Granger gives no honors and, as a place, has received almost none: there is no municipality here to hold a key, enter a civic contest, or keep a roll of its own distinguished dead. Its honors record is therefore a ledger kept in other people's books — a school district's, a governor's, a President's — and this section reads those books name by name. The reading finds one honor of the first rank, won by a third-grade teacher for work done at Prairie Vista Elementary on Brick Road, and it finds that honor's owner exactly where the White House's own roster puts her: under this ground's name. Around it the file runs the full suite of tests the baseline requires — the Nobel and Rhodes rolls, the great civilian medals, the fellowships, the stage and screen classes, the state's own honors, the teaching awards, the student championships, the farm champions of the two townships — and prints every empty line it finds, with the shelf it searched. What stands is small and real. What does not stand is printed too, so that no reader mistakes the silence of this section for an unsearched one.