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Seeing old things with new eyes

Recently I wrote about the idea of “resettling” our old small towns and suburbs—seeing them as a sort of frontier in our backyard. I was thinking about young people who didn’t grow up in towns or cities, and who see them with new or fresh eyes.

I think of myself, growing up outside the small town of Flemington, New Jersey, which we visited all the time. …