Good ole Preston!
Over break I was able to take some pictures of my small town. Being that we are entering the summer, you are almost always guaranteed to end up behind a farmer on his tractor traveling through town, as my intro picture so nicely shows you! "Town" for me consists of one real stoplight, one gas station, a firehouse down the road, a small convience store and a Feed and Grain store where you can find all of town on a Sunday afternoon! Next door is the biggest farm in Preston, Woodmansee Farms, next to our elementary school. When I attended our elementary school we had about 11 classrooms with an old gym, and it literally looked like an old school house, they have upgraded quite a bit since then! Our school stands alone in the middle of town, no buildings around it, except the bus depot that sits behind it, one main road that runs in the front, very different from the Bridgeport schools where students walk home every day! I will add more with some more blurbs about my town as I collect and go through them, and begin my comparison of Bridgeport. It feels like I live a million miles away from this area!
The pictures and your text give me a sense of how this will go. I think comparing "small town" and "big city"--pros and cons, with particularity--is a pretty natural hook for most readers.
ReplyDeleteAre you going to try to make a case, so to speak, for the value of one over the other, or just explore and raise experiences and questions? I think the latter, right?
I think that latter, I think it would be hard to prove the value of one over the other because of the second half. It really depends on the person which is more valuable. So I hope to make readers more familiar with how different two areas can be, and how that may influence employment and quality of life, while also raising how what occurs in Bridgeport would be difficult to occur in Preston and vice versa, based on landscape and development of the seperate town or city overall.
ReplyDeleteThis article and these pictures remind me of my town in New Hampshire; small, farms, tractors, and one elementary school. Many people I actual live on a farm. What people do not realize is my town might be small, but there are houses and neighbors in my town. People forget that small towns exist; all people every think about is big cities with lots of cars and people. I have loved every minute of growing up in my town and I would not live any where else. I stinks sometimes when I need gas or go to the grocery I have to go to the next town over, but I have gotten use to it, so it does not bother me anymore.
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