HeyJaredThe Practice of Community
Conversations about landscapes, land use, and building community, some practical, some philosophical.
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Another Community Institution Under Attack (opens the original)
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Hello again, and thanks to all subscribers, new and old. This will be a brief newsletter. The main news is that I am having a cornea transplant tomorrow, which will leave me unable to maintain this newsletter for a month, hopefully no longer. I know I’m not that consistent, anyway, but at least this lapse in production has a good explanation.Thanks for reading The Practice of Community! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<form class="subscription-widget-subscr
The Record of Community (opens the original)
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Welcome back! Thanks to all subscribers, old and new.Thanks for reading The Practice of Community! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.As
The Music of Community (opens the original)
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The final summer concert of the Williston Town Band drew a small crowd. It was raining, so we heard them play in the school auditorium instead of on the village green. There was plenty of the traditional rousing music – the Stars and Stripes Forever, movie themes – but the performance ended on a plaintive note with The Last Rose of Summer.Williston’s band dates back only to the late 1950s, making it “new” among its peers (1). The Allentown, PA band, which is reputedly the oldest in continuous ex
A Grand Opening (opens the original)
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I want to follow up on an earlier (March 8, 2025) newsletter about helping NIMBYs see that change might have benefits. To remind everyone, that story was about a neighbor who was brought around by my suggestion that development might bring things she woul enjoy, like a bookstore.And it did, though it took twenty years. The Wild Meadows Bookstore and Café had its grand opening on July 11 and 12. I could hardly weave my way through the lines of people waiting for pastries and the parents sitting o
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