"A Sense of Place"
Returning from London we settled in Camden where my first son was born in 1995. In Camden the kids walked to school and then downtown and to the Y and bagel shope. Parents could let them get there by themselves. Then I saw they were going to build the new high school 3 miles out of town. Now everyone was going to bussed to everything.
Article about keeping public buildings in town centers in Maine.