A rain free night full of vehicle demolishing and car smashing fun was featured at the 4-H Fairgrounds Saturday for a capacity crowd inside the main arena as 38 drivers competed in four categories for trophies, prize money and bragging rights.
Welcome to small town America. I have lived in it for much of my six plus decades on this earth. I want to thank my local paper for the photo and the words above. I live just north of a town of 2214 people. At least that is what the sign says coming into town. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
For my town and many small towns here in the Midwest the county fair is the highlight event of the year. It is where you go to say a quick “hi” to those few folks that you don’t encounter on a regular basis. The county fair is the highlight of the year and the demolition derby is the highlight of the fair. We didn’t attend the smash-a-rama this year; it was just too hot for us “old” folks so we left it up to all the teens to cheer for their favorite drivers. From the looks of all the pictures in the paper it was a good one. I don’t know who won but that really doesn’t matter. I don’t know what it is about watching people smash into each other that gets so much attention? :)
Cheers was a TV show that was popular during the late 1980’s and one of the phrases that was prominent in the theme song was “where everybody knows your name”. Well, that is pretty much the definition of small town life. I understand there are those carousers around that don’t like everyone knowing their name but for everyone else it just makes life a little more friendly and enjoyable.
As another old time TV jingle goes “Green Acres is the place for me”….
RJ's Corner - Having My Say 
We live in a city of over 100,000 people. Yet our main street is the same as yours. The 4th of July parade is the big social occasion of the year and when you go into a local deli, everyone treats you like a neighbor. I suppose you can take the small town girl out of the small town but you can never take the small town out of the girl. Like you we love our small town a lot.
Barbara
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Thanks for the words Barb. I lived in Indianapolis for over twenty years. It has a population of about 800,000 but within that city was a sub-city of Lawrence. That is where I spent my early years as a child and my early years as an engineer. You could say that Lawrence was a small town totally surrounded by a large city. Maybe yours is like that. But I’m sure that almost everyone in my town of 2200 would roll their eyes if I made the proclamation that place with 100,000 people was a small town. ;)
But then again all us Midwesterners are small town people in heart. I plan on writing a series of posts soon about my Midwestern roots or at least that is what the post-it says beside my keyboard….
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