The tricks of time

I remember when I was a kid listening to grown-ups talk about how time starts to seem to go faster and faster as you get older. It’s not that I didn’t believe them. But I think that’s the kind of concept that doesn’t really hit you until you experience it.

In high school I used to be an actor. I was in many school and community productions. I loved it, the entire process from the first read-through to the final production.

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Visioning in Hancock

Just as the coming of the Erie Railroad opened our area in 1848, the Upper Delaware Scenic Byway, future Route 86 and the Internet are reopening it today. The question is: “Opening it to what?” I suspect the answer is “To whatever we attract.”

My particular vision for Hancock and the Upper Delaware, is to be the model of how to improve a rural economy without ravaging the land or its people. To create a place where our children can choose to remain and still earn a good living and where all of our residents can be proud of their community. These communities would then be a magnet and attract the additional money and people we need to prosper. The basis for all of this is predicated on our villages having a sound economic base.

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