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The Granville Historical Society Oral History Project 2001 - 2002
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4) A Safe and Doable Quality of Life
Running Errands in Record Time (Dave Rutledge) Something that really appeals to me about Granville is being able to get to where ever I want to go in just a few minutes. I can run a half a dozen errands and be home within an hour. That just can’t be done in Columbus or in any bigger city.
Life is Safe, Easy, Doable (Robin Bartlett) It was harder pre-computers to be an academic in Granville, because you weren’t in on the conversations that took place at the major research institutions. But as of 1990 there’s a lot of people who are very good scholars who want to come here because life is easy. You don’t have to spend a lot of time worrying about crime. You don’t have to spend a lot of time worrying about your automobile. You don’t have to spend a lot of time worrying how am I going to get from here to there. It’s all very doable and if you really want to write and things, this is a great place to be. David Baker, who’s a nationally known poet, people ask him, why are you here in Granville, Ohio? Why aren’t you in New York City? And he says because it’s doable. You know, you can have a high quality of life with very little effort.
Biking and Roller-Blading (Laura Cramer) I like being able to have the bike trail and being able to just go out and ride on that. And I really like all the parks that they have. They have like Sugar Loaf, and Wildwood, and those are just really nice places to go out and sit and think, or just play around. And it’s also awesome to be able to just go roller-blading around Granville, and feel safe that nobody’s going to like come and attack you. Or that it’s just a nice safe feeling that Granville is really safe place to live.
Size of Granville and Closeness of Family (Lyn Robertson) Our family has been greatly enhanced by the closeness we’ve been able to have in our lives because of how Granville’s laid out. For example, our children, even though I worked all the time, never had to be taken to daycare and left there for long periods of time. They never had to be on busses for long periods of time going to school – meaning that they would have had to leave home earlier to get the bus. That gave us more family time and so we really are quite bonded to each other. Someday I could see us moving to be near the kids. . . but Granville will always be home.
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