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To: Solon who wrote (3233)	10/29/2002 7:57:27 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7689

You can see the same idea depicted on a smaller scale with tiny rural towns which slowly dry up and die because they have nothing to offer in relation to what is readily available in a larger comunity which has amenities to improve quality and enjoyment of life. ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Oh, come now. When I've small towns die, it has been because their economic base has evaporated, not because the local opera house closed. The mine gave out. The plant moved. The military base closed. Yeah, people move to cities to get the culture. They also move to small town to get away from cities and the crime, crowding, pollution, ........ Many cities are being drained of their mind power (READ economic power and personal incomes) because they have no vitality to offer a mobile and cultured person. If the economic base is their those mobile ands cultured people will pay for that culture and it will appear. The young are the life blood of a community...but youth is when they are free to leave--before things congeal... Yeah, some (not all) leave for the bright lights of the city. And many become disillusioned and move back. WHOA! I said nothing about support. This whole thread of discussion was about federal support of the arts.