Finding Ulysses

It’s a chilly and uncertain thing to do to try to take a video of going down a sledding hill. Gloves have to be off to operate the buttons of the camera, and only one hand is available for steering, making it a bit harder to stay in the center of the sledding runs, where the going is smooth and fast.

I see on the ShurSave web site that ShurSave stores are owned by people committed to serving their communities in Northeastern Pennsylvania. How does it feel, I wonder, for the owner of our local ShurSave to run a store here in Ulysses, but deep down be committed to serving a community somewhere else, in Northeastern Pennsylvania?

Why doesn’t the Free Press balance its skewed coverage of the new Kinney’s store by coming back into Trumansburg and talking to the people shopping and working inside the village?

Trumansburg needs a self-concept that transcends the traditional separations of rural, urban and suburban communities. I’m not sure that language to refer to a village like Trumansburg yet exists.

A brief survey of Trumansburg in social networking sites reveals… MySpace has got a large number of Trumansburg residents who have placed a profile online. There is no MySpace group dedicated to Trumansburg yet. Wouldn’t that be interesting? There is a MySpace profile for the Grassroots Festival, and one for Donna the Buffalo. There’s a [...]

Finding Ulysses again, unless we can reintegrate where we live and where we work into who we are, the entire world becomes a suburb without a center.