Little town blues


Does anything good come out of rapid growth? The trend toward urbanization of the rural West is the theme of “Community Values, Change, Growth and Quality of Life,” a May 10 symposium in western Colorado’s Glenwood Springs. Speakers include Daniel Kemmis, mayor of Missoula, Raye Ringholz, author of Little Town Blues – Voices from the Changing West, and Ed and Betsy Marston, publisher and editor of High Country News. For more information contact the Community Trust Institute, 1101 8th Street, Glenwood Springs, CO 81601 (970/945-5912).

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Little town blues

by Staff, High Country News
April 3, 1995

<h1>Little town blues</h1> <p class="byline">by Staff, High Country News <br />April 3, 1995</p> <p>Little town blues</p> <p>Does anything<br /> good come out of rapid growth? The trend toward urbanization of the<br /> rural West is the theme of “Community Values, Change, Growth and<br /> Quality of Life,” a May 10 symposium in western Colorado’s Glenwood<br /> Springs. Speakers include Daniel Kemmis, mayor of Missoula, Raye<br /> Ringholz, author of Little Town Blues – Voices from the Changing<br /> West, and Ed and Betsy Marston, publisher and editor of High<br /> Country News. For more information contact the Community Trust<br /> Institute, 1101 8th Street, Glenwood Springs, CO 81601<br /> (970/945-5912).</p> </p> <div class="wp-block-group hcn-print-edition-box"> <p>This article appeared in the <a href="/?p=189064">print edition of the magazine</a> with the headline <span class="hcn-magtitle">Little town blues</span>.</p> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-32/little-town-blues/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=112064&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-32/little-town-blues/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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