Homage To Small Hometowns

Ridgewood will always be a small town to me. No matter how many restaurants it has and how few empty lots remain without a McMansion.

I saw this today on the James Lileks site:

"If you grow up in a small town, your love is inevitably unrequited. Which is why you return, the grey swain, flowers in hand. Remember me?"

If anybody could ever sum up why I have a blog and a web site devoted to the Ridgewood High School class of 1977 James Lileks could. He is a writer living in the midwest who loves New York city for the same reason I do: The Buildings! Please visit his web site. You won't regret it.