red barn pizza

yum: here is the link to the place
What generates social capital?.
Certainly voluntary associations a la Alexis de Tocqueville.  No doubt bowling leagues a la Robert Putnam.  But let us also consider the possibilities of pizza from a wood fired oven in southern MN on the most perfect summer evening of the year: the air, the music, the food, the company.  Merely the colors: green grass, red barn, blue sky.  These may be the sounds, tastes, and hues that evoke patriotism in its purist form.  This is not a matter of government or ideology, but rather of living in a place and in a time, more sensory than ideological.