Interview Excerpts

The interview comments tended to fall into three different areas (describing the present, remembering the past, and looking toward the future) with a total of thirty-six topics:

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A.  Description  (A Snapshot of Granville, focusing on the present)

1)  A Town We Call Home

2)  A Sense of Community

3)  Walking and Talking

4)  A Safe and Doable Quality of Life

5)  Local Government and Public Services

6)  Volunteerism and Community Involvement

7)  Retired People in Granville

B.  Memories  (Remember When . . . , focusing on the past)

8)  A Sense of History

9)  The 4^th of July

10)  Sallie Jones Sexton

11)  The Granville Inn

12)  The Buxton Inn

13)  Growing Up in Granville

14)  Spring Valley Pool

15)  Wildwood Park

16)  Stores and Businesses

17)  Grocery Stores and Grocers

18)  The Granville Times

19)  A Small Town Bank

20)  The Volunteer Fire Department

21)  The Opera House and the Fire That Destroyed It

22)  Granville Public Schools

23)  The “Moving Together” Campaign

24)  Diversity . . . or Lack of It

25)  Refugees . . . and How Granville Embraced Them

26)  Churches

27)  Denison University

28)  Police and Crime

29)  Farms and Farmers

30)  Roads and Transportation

31)  National and International Events Impacting Granville

32)  Lea Ann Parsley and the 2002 Winter Olympics

C.  Growth and Change  (Edge City, focusing on the future)

33)  Granville’s Struggle Between Past and Future

34)  Managing Development

35)  Green Space and Land Conservancy

36)  Predictions and Hopes for Granville’s Future

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