My Place to Yours

Gee . . . I've sure missed meeting you here.   I just haven't been able to "get my blog on" lately. Too much — and not enough — going on.   But today is the perfect time to say Happy Independence Day to my fellow Americans. There is so much for which to be thankful, and being silent about that simply is not an option.   When last we met, I told you about a long-awaited dream come true and the dedication of Mossy Creek Station, a festival park in my small town's historic district. Step One in revitalizing our once-bustling downtown.   In the last two months, the park's been hopping with "first time ever" events.       And today we hosted the first 4th of July Celebration ... Keep Reading...

When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, ‘See! This our father did for us.' John Ruskin 19th century art critic, social thinker, and philanthropist:     So began the public overview of a project a lot of people have been working on for a long time; some of them years longer than me . . .   Some of you long-time readers will remember me telling you about A New Day in ... Keep Reading...