Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Americana
Downtowns are enjoying a renaissance as the malls across suburban America shrivel up and get bulldozed by the dozens. It wasn’t so many years ago the big legacy department stores like Sears and Wards fled downtowns for the malls. Now those stores are no more—replaced in turn by Amazon and its online copycats—while the authenticity […]
Planners like to plan, and economic developers like to develop, but at the end of the day it’s about what we do to implement the plan that gets things done. Becky McCray and Deb Brown are practical people from small towns who are not planners—they are do-ers. Their mission is to help people get things […]
Cheyenne’s Celtic Musical Arts Festival took over Depot Plaza downtown this weekend. The usual Fridays on the Plaza offered up high-octane Celtic grunge leading up to a romping good time with Celtic Americana of The Elders, a favorite from my KRFC days. Put together some food, some music, some folk art and even some weekend rain couldn’t […]
