4.12.10 – Ring that bell

I pass by the World Peace Bell in Newport, Kentucky all the time, yet it still puzzles me. It was supposed to be a tourist attraction, as it is the world’s largest bell, but, not surprisingly, throngs are not massing in front of this enormous bell. Typically on Friday evenings groups hold up signs protesting the war, but that’s usually the largest crowd I’ve seen there.

City governments and prominent individuals are always trying to come up with big concepts and big stores to bring people to the area, yet rarely do they work out. Maybe if they could just make the cities livable, people would want to be here.