Continuous River Towns

Boats no longer stop

in the towns without stoplights

along the Great River Route

in the upper Mississippi River Valley.

Planners seek investors

who will renovate and erect

strive for a quaint ambience

to inject into the passersby

hope they become

money-spending tourists 

or tax-paying residents

and to convince

the inhabitants to stay.

 

—Salvatore Marici

 

 

Previously posted on the Visible City Project -Quad Cities blog. 

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