Three things are essentialto survival in rural America.
Now we're not talking about
rural America 50 miles outside
Dallas, or Denver,
a burb of Chicago, those
places call themselves rural -
but in reality they are capable
of pulling all of the big city
resources they have right
into their mix. Nope these
three things are for rural where
we're at...the sticks, as they
used to say...so here they go...
1. Friday night football.
2. Main Street that is
open for business.
3. Folks who do what needs
doing in the community, and
volunteering to help.
There are other but these three
are the main ones. No football
and Friday night becomes just
another night of the week.
Business on main street in our
town means something, we don't
have a lot of plants around usemploying a lot of folks, so
our folks either work somewhere
and live here, or, retail their
hearts out to local folks while
praying for a break on the web.
Folks who do stuff that needs doing
isn't just a rural America thing, but
it does help, and we don't have a
huge population to draw from. This
can mean, and sometimes does mean,
we end up with folks doing a lot,
from a few. It's what is the only
way that some things get done.
Have any favorite observations about
your rural community, we'd love to
hear them?
