Where Do You Go When You Go Downtown?

The irony of suburbia often providing more abundant public amenities

My wife and I went to Frederick, Maryland the other weekend for the day. It’s a great small city—very Pennsylvania-like, in that kind of quaint, kind of gritty, genuinely urban but not high-intensity way. (Pennsylvania has the best small cities in America, I think.)

We started at a microbrewery just outside the downtown core, and then parked at a public …