Our Town

I grew up in a small town of about 1700 people in the north-eastern United States. There was my mother and father, my two younger twin sisters, and me, the older brother. My parents made a living by running a small shop where my father would sell the antlers and skin of the animals he would hunt and my mother would sell art supplies. We were able to survive like this for many years. Just the five of us, maybe a stray dog one of my sisters had found and insisted we keep because “He’s just so cute…

Racism is a huge problem in our country even now, but especially in the thirties in the deep south. This also happens to be the setting of our novel, To KIll a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The actual story takes place in Maycomb County, Alabama in a small rural town. A couple main characters in the book are two small children named Jem and Scout who are siblings. The main event in the story is a trial for an African-American man named Tom Robinson who has been accused of raping a white woman by…

miles from the small town that I would consider my hometown. While the distance between myself and Auburn, Indiana is large I have been closely influenced by the small town’s values of hard work and tradition. With the city being founded around the manufacturing of the Auburn Automobile, today the town takes pride in the museum to honor the traditions of the company. When visitors come to my town I would invite them to the Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg museum. The town is proud of our past, but…

bad. People are destroying their community in many different ways and do not even realize it. The community needs to take action before the town ends up in worse shape than it already is. Something needs to be done immediately before it is too late. Bennettsville use to always be a safe, clean, small, town until recently. Bennettsville use to be a safe town to live in but is now becoming more and more dangerous due to crime. Violence is almost recreational as much as it occurs throughout…

When Small Towns go big or go Organic There was a time when the town I lived in was a small society of farmers and factory workers. The town as a whole believed in hard work, good product, and solid kinship. This was a time when our social structure reflected the principles of mechanical solidarity and Gemeinschaft. The town began to transition around ten years ago as an urban area near us began to spread out and reach our borders. Today, we are still somewhere in the middle and reflect both…

Helps us high school students give back to the community. How many people come to sporting events, support clubs, and donate their time and resources to the high school out of the kindness of their hearts? A lot, especially in a small community like ours. The other thing is I think that the term community service is always followed by the question, “what did you get in trouble for?” which is very sad. So many people think that the only reason high school kids, most of the time, are doing this…

point? A close look at the movies Hope Floats and Boyhood, the song Blest Be the Tie That Binds, and the poem Lucinda Matlock and a comparison of all these stories to a play called Our Town allows us to look further into the reason behind life and help us answer the question, “What makes life worth living?” The play Our Town is, simply put, about life and how we choose to live it. It is not noticed upon first watching the play that it is about anything other than an ordinary family just doing…

Public Art is a very important part of our community. Public art is a way for others to see what our community is based on. It conveys our community's background and history, recreating our isolated dull community into a community with hope and inspiration. By paying for this beautiful sculpture to be apart of our town center, it could bring our community closer together that others would want to join. This sculpture could make us go from a small town to a big famous city. Public Art has been…

Colorado is on a major street in town, one street over from the main thoroughfare, Elk Avenue. Prior to having a fence in the front and a temporary fence in the back yard, there was ample evidence that the yard was a common walkway for people, bicycles, and animals (bears frequent our house often, probably due to the lack of residence and shrubbery in the back yard). There is also a no trespassing sign that is posted in the back yard, which after walking through the town is the only no…

Sustainable Town Every town has its own characteristics, making it different from other town. I am living in my own town and I have a responsibility to save and protect it. As citizens in our village, we need to protect and make it grow. The necessity, we need to save right now is natural resources (water, trees, etc). Because water is a limited resource, if people continue to waste it, there wont be enough water for the town in one day, and people could die because of it. My own town is a…