I am constantly amazed at just how small of a town this is, not in actual size but in the feel of it. If I remember correctly, the county population (not counting college students) is around 60k. If you know the 7 degrees of seperation theory, we don't need nearly that many here.
Easter weekend we hung the church sign I posted on the portfolio page. Last week I get a call from a woman wanting to discuss a house sign. Her & her sister come over, we talk about what they're looking for, then the 1 sister explains that she had no idea where to get what they wanted til she drove by as we were hanging the church sign.
This house sign is a mother's day/father's day present for their parents, the 4 kids are all chipping in. The 2 sisters give me their names & phone #s. This morning the 1 brings in the picture of the house they want incorporated on the sign & a deposit. I had already figured it out but she confirmed it...her father & brother both worked with my husband. In fact her brother worked for my husband in KY and Brandon & I had many suppers together when I was visiting & Bill was working.
How small of a town is that?
Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
I think that is pretty darn cool, personally!
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
Small town? I'll tell you how small of a town it is...
I used to live in Eureka, MO, a town of just over 4,000 people but part of the St. Louis Metro area of millions.
You remember that drunk that hit my house?
I will give you exactly ONE guess what town he's originally from.
How's that for irony? We both grow up in the same tiny town in Missouri during the same time period yet it took both of us moving 1200 miles to the same small town population of 50,000 out in the middle of the desert to cross paths.
You wouldn't believe how many people out here I run into that used to live in my old stomping grounds back in Missouri. It's kinda wild.
Posted by Todd Gill (Member # 2569) on :
Potterville clocks in at about 2,600 residents....although Lansing - Capitol City of Michigan - is about 13 minutes away with a population of roughly 125K - - still not huge for a capitol city.
I like small towns....they can be a little soap opera, a little gossipy...but you get to know people pretty well, and that's a neat thing.
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
Our nearest town has a population of around 320, and the next nearest town has 1200, and then the BIG city nearest has 6000. I know one guy that seems to be related to everyone I know that's a long time local. Anyway Chris, I'm glad you shared your amuzement of it all with us, and what is that 7 degrees of seperation theory?
Posted by Bill Diaz (Member # 2549) on :
Our small town (11,500) is the biggest town in a county of 40,000. It's the second biggest county area wise in the state and probably has the flatest landscape in an already flat state.
There's a bunch of towns 200-1000 in our area and a sea of rich farm ground. It's so rural, but it's strange you drive 60 miles from here and there's 10 million people.
Around here you not only know the people in your town, but you know family names and people from the surrounding towns, so it gives you a feeling that everything is connected. Since it has that rural feeling and has no beautiful mountains, hills lakes or anything resembling a resort type background, there is not an influx of people from the outside. People tend to come here from the outside only for the few jobs available, and there's a lot of people who leave and come back, because it's home and a good place to live. That's what I did.
Posted by Bill Lynch (Member # 3815) on :
Chris, It's a small world, I was listening to a PBS quiz show Saturday and the featured "town of the week" was Indiana, PA, I remember because they were joking about Indiana University of PA.
Posted by Murray MacDonald (Member # 3558) on :
Hey, Chris, I used to live in a town so small we had to take turns being the village drunk. MUR
Posted by Keith Myers (Member # 5051) on :
I've got one for you...I come from a community of about 50-60 people (Rhineland, Texas). We have 4 season tickets to the Texas Motor Speedway, bought them last year. This year we are sitting in our seats and a man and his son sit down beside us, you guessed it they were from the same town. They got their tickets from Ticketmaster a few days before the race...no connection whatsoever.
What are the odds that out of 200,000 seats you will sit beside someone from your same hometown of 80 people??
Posted by Jeff Ogden (Member # 3184) on :
I lived in a town, Lyman, in NH, that had 235 people. There were more cows on the census than people.
Posted by Bill Preston (Member # 1314) on :
Fly Creek is a community of about 400, or so. Population stays stable---every time a baby is born---------some guy leaves town.
When there is a wedding---it is usually a formal affair---both barrels are painted white. The groom wears a clean t-shirt with an airbrushed necktie.
bill preston
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Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
the little village i grew up in in pa....was 4 miles from the nearest town. to get to our village, you drove a mile south of the nearest town, park your car, 2nd miles was done with donkeys, 3rd mile you had a walking trail........and the 4th miles..YOU SWUNG IN ON GRAPEVINES......
Posted by Kissymatina (Member # 2028) on :
Rick, the 7 degrees of seperation theory is that everyone is connected to everyone else on the planet by no more than 7 steps or degrees. So, you know your neighbor (step 1) who has a cousin (step 2) who had a college roommate (step 3) and so on.
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
In a small town, after a week, you're not a stranger, but you're still the new guy after thirty years.
The suburb of Dallas that I live in is no longer small--the population has increased twenty-five fold since I moved to the area. My wife and I have been in our house 32 years, however, most of the neighbors on our street have been here longer.
Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
My hometown was the closest thing you could get to Mayberry without leaving Indiana. Town drunk, barber, sheriff, haunted house...all the way down the line. We coulda sued Andy Griffith for stealin our town!
(I always thought it was six degrees of separation. )
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
and then there's the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game...
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