Small Town Soul Prints

"Believe me, the street smarts you picked up in Elmwood, Kansas don't carry any weight around here."

"This town ain't big enough for the proposed outlet shopping mall at Millet Creek Pass."

Things I love about Powell River...

1989 Map Of Sorghum Corners, Ohio

Wyatt returns home to visit his old small town.

"I like New York, but I miss sleeping drunk on my front lawn."

"Well, Mr. Goddam Fancy-Pants Small-Town-Expose hot shot! What makes you think we don't all have lusty, kiss-and-tell memoirs boiling away inside us?"

Welcome to Yellow Pages, Vermont

Centerville.

Tenafly International Film Festival

Welcome to a Sleepy Little Town - name available on request.

"Local shopping, local eating, and...I married the girl next door."

"I couldn't find parking in the city, so I moved home, got back with my high-school girlfriend, had a baby, and got a great deal on a new car."

'If we let this happen, soon we'll be swamped in chain stores.'

Hadleyville Has-Beens

statue in park: 'Arnold P. Rossiter, a local boy who went to the big city and made it big... and now he's back home, flipping burgers, just like we always said he would.'

It was so quiet in town the residents took to taking chairs to the corner so they could watch the traffic lights change.

'You can close rural Post Offices on-line now.'

Welcome to Springdale...'We're number 10, 11, or maybe 12!'

"Hello Billy, how is your mother?"

"I think we're beginning to chip away at the stigma."

road sign: "Gilkers Corners Population 926

"It's where I grew up, Diane. A sleepy little town where everybody knows what everybody else is doing, and blogs about it 24/7!"

West Fester needs to get with it! Sorry, Twig. We like it dull. Tuba concert. We want quiet, steady citizens. Isn't that discrimination? Only against exciting folks. We welcome boring persons of all races, creeds and sexual orientations. Wow! A rainbow of monotony.

Entering Yoke.

Welcome signs 'Newtown Falls...republican 8,democrat 2, None of your damn buisness 194.

Smalltown, U.S.A.

Just in from St. Paul.

Another sleepy one town horse.

Pond Village Store Generalists

'Me? I'm from a one horse town. . . It was incredibly lonely.'

Mom & Pop Shoppe: Going Out Of Business (Not that it's your fault).

"This is the close-knit town where a grisly murder reveals a dark secret...."

'Shee-yoot. Now we ain't even a one-horse town.'

"Well, when did you get back to the Big Town?"