Towns sometimes seem to grow all on their own, to become their own people, so to speak, practically independent of the people living in them. This is of course only an illusion, but the way time and culture shape a town, especially a small one, says a lot about the culture at large, and about the people who are shaping it, day by day, through thousands and thousands of decisions large and small. Sometimes, though, it is necessary to make a decision on some big changes.
Look at the township of Hoquiam, Washington; it's a town going through changes. Established as a logging township, it maintains that past with events such as the Loggers' Playday. And every fall there is a logging competition and parade to remind the natives of Hoquiam how their hamlet came to be. But where some traditions are timeless, central to the framework of a township's culture, others have to be created anew.
Scrutinize the Hoquiam waterfront. This piece of the municipality's downtown has not been substantially used since a 1980s Renaissance. But now that there's talk of development in that domain, there's also the possibility for it to become a shaping part of the local culture. Hoquiam can't just rely on logging contests until the end of time -- there's got to be more to a metropolitan's life than that.
The Hoquiam waterfront hasn't seen much action since its heyday in the 1980s, but now there is development interest, and so the community has to think seriously about what kind of town it may want to become. Development is obviously no guarantee of success, nor will it necessarily turn Hoquiam into a metropolis, but decisions need to be made collectively, because of course growth isn't free -- tax money is the ruche fertilizer for civic growth.
There's alternative reason for Hoquiam to grow its waterfront. There's a variety of long-running rivalry with its bigger neighbor to the east, the metropolitan of Aberdeen. Bigger towns tend to develop the enhanced opportunities, often more money from the state, than the smaller city. Like the older sibling who gets all the new things while the little sister has to play with old toys. But so if Hoquiam thinks about what it wants to become and applies that idea in creating a superb downtown waterfront, it can display to that next-door neighbor how good a town can be.
A town's history is of great consequence, but so is its coming direction. It's also valuable to reach out to new opportunities. Hoquiam, like many modest towns, needs to be fearless in embracing its possibilities for that yet to come -- it can keep its history yet as it evolves.
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