Autumn in the North Cemetery.

Sixty miles west of Boston, Massachusetts there is the small New England town of Sturbridge. Located at the junction of I-90 (The Mass Pike), and I-84 it has become known as the "Crossroads of New England". The town was first settled over 300 years ago, and like other small New England towns it has grown just enough over the years to be in a difficult place today. How do we embrace the future without forgetting how we got to our present? How do we attract the right kind of growth, and maintain who we are? And, what about our culture out here in Central Massachusetts?



These pages will cause one to think about how to protect what we have, our future direction, and how to move on in the very best way.


Those thoughts, and other ramblings, will hopefully inspire more thought, conversation, action, and occasionally a smile...

...seems to be working so far

Friday, October 24, 2008

Don't Pave Paradise

Today I received a comment meant for the posting on October 23, "Learning About Our Yesterdays". Since not everyone reads the comments, and this particular comment is not only a good one, but sincere, I decided to give it a place of its own.--ed.

"I feel like treasuring what we have has been made to feel like a crime in this town. Does treasuring our town mean we don't want to see us prosper? Of course not! Isn't the Joni Mitchell lyrics fitting?

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot SPOT
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don't know what you’ve got‘Til it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They took all the trees
And put them in a tree museum
Then they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go,
That you don't know what you’ve got‘Til it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Hey farmer, farmer
Put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples
But LEAVE me the birds and the bees
Please!Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you’ve got‘Til its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot "

Posted by anonymous

--from a comment posted to 10/23/08 "Learning About Our Yesterdays"




Joni Mitchell in concert 1970
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