A small town in Illinois has figured out that if you have a plan, and you pursue it with optimism and cooperation, you can win.
Casey, Ill., claims a lot of big things: the world’s biggest wind chime, chair, mailbox, knitting needle and pencil. But that’s not all it’s got.
I asked the matron who, along with a host of teenagers, ran the busy ice cream shop, and what made the difference there? Why is her town, in the middle of corn and soybean fields, thriving? Sitting next to me, as we happily munched our frozen treats, were tourists from Chicago, 200 miles away. We all agreed that Casey, Ill., a town with one stoplight and some big things, was worth a stop.
Raton and Walsenburg don’t have big things, but they don’t need them; they both have natural settings of singular beauty. Walsenburg’s backdrop is easily among the most charismatic I’ve ever seen: The Spanish Peaks, with ever-changing details but a silhouette so distinct that their Indigenous name, Huajatolla, means “breasts of the world.”
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