Pine Bluff sounds like a Southern version of Niagara Falls. We were a thriving city up until the late 60s, now we are not. Every so often, someone comes up with a grand idea to revive the city, everyone gets excited, then it falls through.
Meanwhile, a few people are doing small things to bring up the standards of living here. A small, but well planned, blues festival. It doesn't bring thousands of people into the city, like the water park was supposed to. It brings in a couple of hundred folk, but it goes on every year while the park closed after one poor season.
The answer, to me, is not some silver bullet project but little efforts to make incremental changes.
That doesn't get the big publicity or excite the media, but it lasts.
Pine Bluff sounds like a Southern version of Niagara Falls. We were a thriving city up until the late 60s, now we are not. Every so often, someone comes up with a grand idea to revive the city, everyone gets excited, then it falls through.
Meanwhile, a few people are doing small things to bring up the standards of living here. A small, but well planned, blues festival. It doesn't bring thousands of people into the city, like the water park was supposed to. It brings in a couple of hundred folk, but it goes on every year while the park closed after one poor season.
The answer, to me, is not some silver bullet project but little efforts to make incremental changes.
That doesn't get the big publicity or excite the media, but it lasts.