Small-town Spirit Prints

''A small town'? -- How on earth could you be from a small town?'

"I'm voting for Stephen because I cannot stand Katie's mother, she is so catty! Anyway-- how're your parents doing with the divorce?"

"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.

"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."

"Sure makes a change from New York!"

"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.'

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

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.'

Hadleyville Has-Beens

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

"Hello Billy, how is your mother?"

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

"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!"

Pond Village Store Generalists

Another sleepy one town horse.

Just in from St. Paul.

Entering Yoke.

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

'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).

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

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

Small Town USA.

"Parking isn't a problem here Sir, we're all tradionally skilled at car theft"