Saturday, May 24, 2025

Where have all the small towns gone?


Where have all

the small towns gone?

To the Mountain Gazette Editor,


The way of print

and newspapers with names and faces you recognize

without them being politicians or famous people.


Have we outgrown small, quaint, and personal?


Small town community reporting takes a fine sieve net.

Perhaps we are only interested in big fish.


In a world where everyone has a megaphone

I liked having a place to write and read at what seemed to me

to be a neighbor-to-neighbor talk.


As a pebble rolls down Mount Mansfield, 

Only the smallest of creatures take notice.


The Mountain will look the same tomorrow.

Only the Gazette to its right, will have rolled on down

Leaving a small hole in the Earth 

and a bit larger one in the communities it served.


Best wishes to Brenda and Sara,

Thank you for being one of the pebbles that keep us connected.


Bernie Paquette

Jericho, Vermont


Best wishes to Brenda and Sara,

Thank you for being one of the pebbles that keep us connected.

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