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Diary of Orrin Brown—April 7, 1865
Diary of Orrin Brown, Goldsboro, North Carolina Friday–Apr. 7th The day has been cloudy with a few light sprinkles of rain. I received a letter from home today and answered it. There was a funeral procesion of some officer passed … Continue reading
Aztec Business Hub Makes the Paper (no fooling!)
The Farmington, New Mexico, Daily Times featured one of my work projects on the front page today. The City of Aztec and the San Juan College Enterprise Center have been exploring the feasibility of a small business incubator, similar to … Continue reading
Meet Some New Friends Doing Interesting Things In Community Development
Spring is in the air. Local citizens are coming out of their winter’s cocoons and are eager to do something. You’re right on top of that, coaxing your friends and neighbors to stop pushing buttons (between planning and doing) and starting … Continue reading
Strategic Doing
So you’ve got a problem. Or your community has a problem, and despite yourself you’ve found yourself on a committee to do something about it. Â What do you do? Â Gather the usual suspects, pour some weak coffee and bring in … Continue reading
Know Thyself and Your Community
“Know Thyself” urges the inscription on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, repeated throughout the Platonic dialogues of ancient Greece.  In 1651, Thomas Hobbes opens Leviathan by urging his readers nosce te ipsum—only by study can we understand our world. In building community, no … Continue reading
Implementation is the Watchword
Most people have a hard-wired bias for action — they may place more or less value on collaboration, or risk-taking, but they want to get things done.  Others of us are more concerned with taking our time to understand what were doing, … Continue reading
Planetizen Benchmarks How Tech Savy Your City Planners Might Be
Remember when the Internet was going to make our lives easier? Â Everything was going to be available anytime, anywhere. Â Sometimes it feels like the web has just made everything more difficult, more complicated. Â Yet sometimes, when we look up from … Continue reading
Small Victories: A Public Participation Save in South Cheyenne
“You can’t save everybody / Everybody don’t want to be saved” –Kieran Kane Everybody agreed the unincorporated community needed attention. The County Comprehensive Plan had highlighted concerns with increasing density in the area just outside city limits. The City Comp … Continue reading
Diary of Orrin Brown—Jan 3, 1865
Diary of Orrin Brown, Savannah, Georgia Tuesday–Jan 3rd We had a very pleasant night and it is clear and warm. Four of us got a pass to go to the City today, there was any amount of provisions selling at … Continue reading
Diary of Orrin Brown—Nov 18, 1864
Diary of Orrin Brown, East of Covington, Georgia Friday–Nov. 18th We were routed out this morning at 4.30 and on the road again at 6 Oclock there is 4 detailed out of our Company today as foragers. Our Regt. is … Continue reading
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