We had heard about Johnny Cash night – an annual event sponsored by the Cambridge Lions Club and held at the Greenwich, N.Y., Elks Club. Our friends Kim and Jack Macmillan invited us to come this year, it was one of those great events that really let you know where you are, where you live.

Harold Ford travels the country singing Johnny Cash songs and doing tributes to the late country music legend, he packed the Elks Club Saturday night – it was a sell out as it usually is – and the Lions Club raised thousands of dollars for the charity work they do. It was low key, not a lot of clapping or foot-stomping, as I had expected, but the love of community and country music permeated the hall. I love Johnny Cash, his songs were well and respectfully rendered. Cash was a brilliant artist, dark and moody, and Ford sounds just like him and captured his quiet, brooding performance style.

I love my life in this small town, it is rich in connection and at a time when rural life has been all but abandoned by the economists and legislators in Washington, my town is creating it’s own rich culture and identity.