My experience of living in rural Nova Scotia is that it embodies many of the values you are talking about here.
Neighbours help neighbours, and there are road side honour stands. Tonight as a newcomer I was invited to a local meeting to participate in some community building. Our local community hall is organizing a potluck (I am making my already famous soup), a yard sale, and I suggested we hold a kitchen party to bring out the local musicians (a date in June likely the 22nd, DM me for the location!).
Well done list of an earlier time. Also...not just sentimental...think about the rail line/road building situation. We far too often latch on to the 'thing of the moment' but often it is passing and we pass with it. Think of the Cogswell Interchange and the cost of now undoing the physical (not to mention the social) cost of that huge blunder'
My experience of living in rural Nova Scotia is that it embodies many of the values you are talking about here.
Neighbours help neighbours, and there are road side honour stands. Tonight as a newcomer I was invited to a local meeting to participate in some community building. Our local community hall is organizing a potluck (I am making my already famous soup), a yard sale, and I suggested we hold a kitchen party to bring out the local musicians (a date in June likely the 22nd, DM me for the location!).
Nova Scotia is awesome!
at least the bonus at the end is coming back, along with lots of eggs for sale.
you missed "owning our own power".
Well done list of an earlier time. Also...not just sentimental...think about the rail line/road building situation. We far too often latch on to the 'thing of the moment' but often it is passing and we pass with it. Think of the Cogswell Interchange and the cost of now undoing the physical (not to mention the social) cost of that huge blunder'
I fear that the Cogswell debacle is just being replaced by a different but equally wrong mess, but I appreciate what you are saying.
Love these memories and the simpler time … when everything wasn’t HUGE!!