Archive for February, 2010
Let’s Shop Main Street
When small towns feel an economic pinch, they often look globally for answers. Sometimes the solution is much closer at hand. Sometimes it’s contained in the hearts, minds, and skills of the townspeople.
Wagging My Tail
Here are the dogs. They’ve returned from their sniffing-fest and sit beside me, one on each side — doggy bookends. As long as I pet, they stay, leaning into me, noses lifted into the breeze, filtering out questions and answers from the air.
View From My Window
It is my world, too. This precious blue stone set in a silver sea. This earth, this dear green earth. This blessed speck of the universe. This miracle.
New Urbanism Revitalizes Main Street
Our cherished places can go away. Main Streets, for instance. But Orrin Thiessen’s proving how New Urbanism design can bring them back.
Active & healthy small town: Margaretville, NY
Margaretville proves that the best vibrant villages often come wrapped in small packages. It doesn’t hurt that the town is so cute that you want to wrap your arms around it and give it a hug.
Sweetly at Home in a Small Town
It is those little creative exceptions to the norm, small but important, that helped to nurture my creativity in a small town.
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