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Originally posted by bendable:
People in my tiny town and surrounding township had a pie auction for charity.

They raised $55,000.00 from the sale of 48 home made pies that the local people baked up.

$1145.83 for a PIE?

Holy Shirt, no wonder us poor furriners can't afford to visit the USA any more!

Our 2 children started school in Lewistown Montana. They both graduated from HS there in graduating classes of under 100. Lewistown population is under 6,000 and is 100 miles from a large city. We loved it there - you know, one of those towns that requires a 1 hour commitment to work your way through the grocery store. Everybody gave you the Montana 2-finger wave when cars passed on the streets. Crime rarely occurred and 40 years ago, you'd see a pickup with a couple of rifles in the gun rack and the windows both rolled down.

Mayberry.

I fear my small town may be slipping away. Too much emphasis on tourism, development and high priced housing only the wealthy can afford. Too bad. Its beautiful here.

I went to IN to cover for a co-worker last November. I worked in Vincennes and Princeton and a few tiny places in between. Absolutely loved it. Felt like real America. I've been back twice since then to work in Evansville, which is a different vibe, but still closer to real America than anywhere I've lived since I was a little kid in TX. I will probably go to work in Henderson, KY for my next trip. Love that stuff.

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Your signature doesn't give an indication where you are though, other than an area where corn is raised, but"west of Lima" I'm guessing you're in Indiana?

Due to my job, I've chosen not to advertise my exact location in my sig line, but you get the idea.

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Originally posted by mcrimm:
Our 2 children started school in Lewistown Montana. They both graduated from HS there in graduating classes of under 100. Lewistown population is under 6,000 and is 100 miles from a large city. We loved it there - you know, one of those towns that requires a 1 hour commitment to work your way through the grocery store. Everybody gave you the Montana 2-finger wave when cars passed on the streets. Crime rarely occurred and 40 years ago, you'd see a pickup with a couple of rifles in the gun rack and the windows both rolled down.

Mayberry.

Great town, lived there for a year back in 1980! That was the last year of my dads 10 year Boeing Minute Man Missile modification tour...

Regarding the OP's post, here in my small SE AL town, just had a very similar parade last week on Independence Day.

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Originally posted by tacfoley:

$1145.83 for a PIE?

Holy Shirt, no wonder us poor furriners can't afford to visit the USA any more![/QUOTE]

I wasn't at the auction for it but I was told that one pie sold for $5,600.00.

The very successful ,well to do farmers need tax right offs,
Their kids and grand kids college tuition are paid off,
Their machinery ,insurance and land is all paid for
So yadda yadda yadda. . . . . . .the tiny town benefits greatly

Moved from Southern California to small town KS and would never think of moving back. I tell people, it's not what we have here that makes it appealing, it's what we don't have here.

My liberal sister can't wrap her mind around that when she comes to visit.

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I tell people, it's not what we have here that makes it appealing, it's what we don't have here.

That's very well put!

I grew up in Detroit, Michigan, but my parents did it in Stone Co., Arkansas as farm kids. The county had a total population of around 8000 in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. In my youth my family drove down there every summer to visit relatives. It was a very different experience from that in the big city!

flashguy

Small towner here. I grew up about 25 miles from Rochester MN and spent about 5 or 6 years in Rochester, and the Metro area in my twenties. I moved back here in 2001. The first thing I noticed was how great it was to not be in traffic for 45 minutes to go anywhere. I will never move back to a metropolitan area again. Our town is not perfect but it's pretty good. Lots of American flags.

Jealous. I bought land in a town in another state from me. Population is 872. Please God let me move ASAP!

I’ve very much come to appreciate my small town, our county fair starts this coming Monday, have always appreciated the work that goes into it. We grow exponentially in population in the summer months and it can be aggravating but it’s so many people’s livelihood that it’s fairly easy to look past it, the fall and winter months are what we look forward to. Looking forward to demo derby, tractor pulls, harness racing, horse pulls and fair food next week.

We were in West Yellowstone MT on 7/4 a few years ago. Most amazing small town parade ever. Kids got candy tossed to them and great fireworks for a town of 1,200+ tourists

After leaving the SF Bay Area we ended up in an unincorporated area and we are semi rural and about a 5 minute drive from very rural. Would change my decision to leave.

Nothing says small town America like 8 man football

Silent

I'd have to sit down & count sometime, but our village population is under 100. It was once a large community with four churches, two general stores, feed mills, tannery, saw mills, etc. In 1941 a large fire destroyed all but four houses. The four houses that didn't burn were ours, and three others. All right in the center of town.

The town has held a Decoration Day/Memorial Day Parade annually for 137 years though, and it draws maybe a thousand or more people. It's the only Memorial Day parade in the county, so it's always drawn all the Vet groups, volunteer fire companies in the county, and the HS marching band. It brings back alot of people whose families were from here, or who marched in the parade when they were kids. It's the event of the season.

After the parade, everybody gathers in the church yard for food, and to listen to some really bad bands in the pavilion. At 5 PM everything's back to normal for another year.

I don't carry here in tiny town,
But always do when up in the big city.

When we left Colorado, we came to Oklahoma in the motorhome to house hunt. We ended up in northwest OK in wheat and cattle county and just happened to stumble into a 21st century Norman Rockwell America. We comment on how fortunate we are at least once a week still.

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Originally posted by Silent:
Nothing says small town America like 8 man football

Silent

Carter Nelson is playing 8-man football for Ainsworth, a ranching community at the north end of the Sandhills in Nebraska. He is considered the #2 tight end in the country and he decided to stay home and play for Nebraska.

Here are the programs that wanted him.

pretty crazy for a guy who is playing 8-man football.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
I fear my small town may be slipping away. Too much emphasis on tourism, development and high priced housing only the wealthy can afford. Too bad. Its beautiful here.

Different Michigan town, exact same problem. Too many tourists forget to leave and go back home.