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Wednesday, October 26, 2022 6:39:57 PM
In reading your guys good chat i kept thinking about the negative on small towns. Guess it's a case of
more positive for the country than negative. Then again you can have too much of a 'good thing' too.
The Grim Reaper of Small Towns
Me (right) and Shina (left) at the National Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma City. If you get to go before they change the postcard display, check out our Strong Towns postcard in the main hall!
Recently, I attended one of our staff retreats, where we all gathered in Oklahoma City to talk about everything “Strong Towns.” On the last day, mere hours before our flights took off, my colleague Shina and I decided to visit The National Cowboy Museum. It was a great step into the old Wild West, where we saw interesting colored boots, lifelike statues, amazing artwork, and so much more.
Also in the museum, we stumbled across the following display about interstate highways .. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/tag/highways . It showed paved roads carving through the landscapes, causing the death of a once crucial place: the small town.
Interstate highways, an innovation constructed to pave quicker, more convenient ways to travel around the United States, resulted in harmful consequences for small towns .. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/tag/Small+Towns . These communities were forgotten and turned to ghost towns as the economic flow of travelers flew by on monstrous interstate roads, with no nearby exit to a place that may have once been a regular stop.
Ghost towns are an eerie, somewhat beautiful fossil record of lives long forgotten in a quest for the new. This image is of a deserted truck stop located in Sierra Blanca, which was effectively wiped off the map when the interstate highway bypassed it in Hudspeth County, Texas.
(Source: Library of Congress.)
More - https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/4/5/the-grim-reaper-of-small-towns
Just felt a nod as this should be in the chat too. An over-abundance of toll roads have made it impossible for some small businesses too.
more positive for the country than negative. Then again you can have too much of a 'good thing' too.
The Grim Reaper of Small Towns
Me (right) and Shina (left) at the National Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma City. If you get to go before they change the postcard display, check out our Strong Towns postcard in the main hall!
Recently, I attended one of our staff retreats, where we all gathered in Oklahoma City to talk about everything “Strong Towns.” On the last day, mere hours before our flights took off, my colleague Shina and I decided to visit The National Cowboy Museum. It was a great step into the old Wild West, where we saw interesting colored boots, lifelike statues, amazing artwork, and so much more.
Also in the museum, we stumbled across the following display about interstate highways .. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/tag/highways . It showed paved roads carving through the landscapes, causing the death of a once crucial place: the small town.
Interstate highways, an innovation constructed to pave quicker, more convenient ways to travel around the United States, resulted in harmful consequences for small towns .. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/tag/Small+Towns . These communities were forgotten and turned to ghost towns as the economic flow of travelers flew by on monstrous interstate roads, with no nearby exit to a place that may have once been a regular stop.
Ghost towns are an eerie, somewhat beautiful fossil record of lives long forgotten in a quest for the new. This image is of a deserted truck stop located in Sierra Blanca, which was effectively wiped off the map when the interstate highway bypassed it in Hudspeth County, Texas.
(Source: Library of Congress.)
More - https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/4/5/the-grim-reaper-of-small-towns
Just felt a nod as this should be in the chat too. An over-abundance of toll roads have made it impossible for some small businesses too.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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