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Promote Tourism?

11/1/2022

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  Everytime I enter the Oracle Community Center (OCC) I recall the adventure residents shared in getting it built.  That old time feeling surged again at the gathering yesterday.  It occurs to me now that revisiting, even briefly, the whole construction experience may help inform current projects including efforts to promote tourism.
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  Other stories are also important. One I try to narrate in a chapter in my book (Sometimes David Wins) references a community survey that was conducted door to door in the 1980's.  (Kaz mentioned it at yesterday's meeting.)  The survey was designed by a local team headed by Ann Woodin with the help of Jim Sell from the University of Arizona.  I suspect resident views haven't changed much since then.   Among the takeaways were attachment to "dark skies", minimal traffic, peace and quiet, "small town" scale and a slow to moderate rate of population growth.   What these desirables have to do with "tourism" is an open question well worth considering.
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    Kaz and I moved to Oracle in 1979.  The house we bought dated to the late 1940s.  With little advance knowledge of the place, we set out to build a new life together, intending to settle in and raise a family.

    Queens, New York and before that Chicago, Illinois rapidly receded in our rearview mirror as small town living moved front and center.

    Of course, we had to learn how to do lots of new things - from chainsawing dead trees, fighting fires, building cabinets, patching leaky roofs; not to mention figuring out how to get along in a rural town in Arizona with the center of local government an hour away and a do-it-yourself ethos the order of the day. 

    Kaz & Frank

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