Recorded in Alpena, Michigan
This story was collected in conjunction with the Museum on Main Street program at the Smithsonian Institution. It is part of the "Be Here: Main Street" collection, intended to capture Americans' stories about their neighborhoods, waterways, towns, traditions, and personal experiences.
What does living in a small town teach you?
"Living in a small town teaches you about relationships and strengthening them with neighbors, colleagues at work, church, schools, it makes you appreciate and come closer together as a community with real concern for each other. And living more in harmony. There is very much a closeness that isn't there in a larger urban or suburban or metropolitan area. You become a part of, especially having been a school teacher in a small town, marriages, funerals, disasters as well as family reunions, news of students and their families and it is a nice, safe feeling to have others care about what happens to you and vice versa. It makes you feel connected."
Asset ID #7073
