Originally Posted by Hosta
I live in a town (25 square miles) that used to be all farming now it is all houses and there is basically a main street with 10 pizza shops one grocery store and lately five car repair shops have moved in. There are also a wide variety of empty stores. There is no local recreation for teens nothing but a park with a fish pond. Our biggest building besides the schools is the library. We have only one claim to fame we host a dinky corn festival every year. I have been wanting to start a quilt group but can't seem to drum up much interest. I have been here my entire life my husband was born in a house a couple miles from where we live. I just wish there was something here to draw people out of their houses and into a community spirit. Everything that has been tried has died out after a couple years.
funny you asked :roll: Our town is having their "perch festival" this weekend and believe me the locals leave the town to the tourist...I belong to 2 guilds both about 15/20 miles away in outlying towns...Our town has one LQS but no guild. haven't really figured out why. Not much shopping, one movie theater that modernized and now shows 2 at the same time. lots of pizza parlors and bars but not much else...fast food, can't leave those out. When we really want to shop we travel 60 miles to a JoAnns and malls..