LINE FORMS TO LEFT: Everyone’s worried about...

LINE FORMS TO LEFT: Everyone’s worried about reduced services and higher fees in these times of austerity, but old-timers had a different way of coping. . . . When rural Orange County residents in the 1800s got their bills from the government, says historian Jim Sleeper, “you could work on the road crews to work off your taxes. . . . A day or two of labor would do it.”