Why We Love Our Small Mountain Towns
People like us who live in small mountain towns know the value of community. We rely on each other to plow driveways, to get a ride when our car breaks down or to watch our kids so the adults can have a date night. We also build lasting relationships, help one another build values and share in each other’s life achievements.
People like us who live in small mountain towns know the value of community. We rely on each other to plow driveways, to get a ride when our car breaks down or to watch our kids so the adults can have a date night. We also build lasting relationships, help one another build values and share in each other’s life achievements.
People like us who are part of a small school also know the value of community. We are known well. We give hugs instead of nods. We have a vested interest in doing good because we are doing good for others as well as for our own kids.
And when something happens that saddens a small community, everybody feels it. Everybody shares the pain. Everybody grieves. And the beauty of a small mountain town like ours is that while we grieve together we also rebound together and grow stronger together in the process. We support one another and stand by one another. We empathize with each other’s pain. We take the time and effort to appreciate what we have and what we have lost.
This article from the NYT affirms the value of communiTEAs like ours. As we say, as we know, as we will always be, we are Crew.