"As Time Goes By . . ."Look closely, dear readers, at this recent digital image April 2009 taken from the Smelter Alley side of this property located at the intersection of McKeown & 3rd Avenues. WHAT do you see?
Really now, WHAT DO YOU SEE?
This is what residents of Patagonia look at either walking or driving by frequently year-in and year-out --and at the same time what visitors see when they come here: Junk? Overgrown backyard?
What's in there?
These are questions asked to me by visitors when I walked them around the streets of Patagonia.
Some remarked after coming here for many years that certain parts of the town were badly-neglected and had fallen into disrepair and what a sad-and-sorry reflection of the community it was to have this "just happen" . . .
Whose watch did it happen on? . . . or was no one watching at all? Or not caring? Or not, What?
Happily, that's not the case:
Last year some individuals - Ted Piper and Phil Ostrum among them -decided to do something.
They formed Patagonia Green Partnership.
Today you can see the work-in-progress at the same place that used to be at various times in Patagonia's history The Corbett Lumber Company and The Little Depot.
Soon to have an opening is a new business for the new lifeways here: Pilates of Patagonia . . . now that's what I call progress
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