It’s just big enough that everyone doesn’t know everyone, but everyone you encounter is really nice.
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We have a ton of beautiful parks. Wherever you live in my hometown, you are within walking distance of at least a small park, and I've been fortunate enough to live near them and our large ones along rivers and creeks.
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What is a definition of a hometown? Is it the place you were born? The place you grew up in most? The place you live the most? Where your parents live? Where your grandparents live?
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I am from a small town called Hesperia, MI. That's right, Michigan. Running right down the middle of the town of 1,000 is a river called the White River. And it also straddles 2 counties. The river was used to supply some of the much needed lumber to rebuild the city of Chicago after the infamous fire that destroyed so much of the city. Sadly now that industry has pretty much left West Michigan, along with the good paying jobs, my former hometown has turned into what many other passed by small towns have become. An area of mostly poor people who have little prospects for making anything more than just enough to get by, and that has led to despair and a lot of drugs, mostly the legal in Michigan marijuana along with meth. It is a scene that you can find in small towns and villages all across America. I wish that I could have a solution, but much more intelligent folks than myself don't know how to fix things. At this point, self reliance and maybe prayer, if you of that kind, seem like the best thing that an individual can do. Sorry for such a sad explanation, but it would be wrong to sugar coat the town that I will love until I no longer wake up above ground.
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Mental Floss
Happy Friday! Question of the week(end): What's your favorite thing about your hometown? 🏡
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