The rich and the powerful and the economists and the corporations have done just about everything within their considerable power to weaken and diminish small towns.

They’ve taken the jobs, the farms, the Main streets, the soil,  the young.

Small towns and small farms are no longer considered efficient in the new global economy. Trade agreements left so many small towns hollow shells.

But small towns persist, and I am grateful to live in one where community lives, it’s own beautiful garden.

I see it every day, but especially at the Sunday Farmer’s Market, where the Hubbard Hall Tune Jam Band played today.

Community lives here, you can see it in the beautiful faces of the band. It is iconic and eternal and strong, it always manages to survive.

“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”

– Goethe