A town needs to take shape and change to keep going, and over and over again this can be a tricky matter. Oftentimes a township is settled for one certain reason and then, years later, finds it needs to learn a new trick in order to stand viable, which is inevitable. And the mode a town does this is very significant, as it says as much about the times we’re all surviving in as about the way a township makes decisions.
A fine example of this evolution is seen in the Washington town of Hoquiam. It was originally a logging town, a history it recalls with an annual event — Loggers’ Playday. And in the fall there is a logging competition and a parade to further remind the people how they got here. While maintaining these traditions is important, sometimes it’s necessary to invent something new.
Take, for instance, the Hoquiam waterfront. The stretch of river in Hoquiam’s downtown hasn’t been much used since the 1980s. Now that some development has taken an involvement in it, here’s a possibility for it to become a much further colorful and chief region of the local area. Hoquiam can’t just rely on logging contests forever — there’s got to be more to a town’s life than that.
Imagining a waterfront lined with shops and restaurants and hotels helps us consider about how to make a metropolitan more profitable — both culturally and financially. Developing the waterfront location has done outstanding things for cities such as San Antonio and Baltimore. They could be like these cities in having an attractive downtown with plenty of cultural resources. The river itself becomes a major draw, a natural characteristic that lends the downtown its own out of the ordinary beauty while giving the general public a place to have a drink.
There’s another purpose to grow its waterfront. There’s its larger neighbor to the east, Aberdeen, with whom they have a kind of rivalry. Bigger towns tend to get the best opportunities, over and over again more money from the state, than the smaller town. Equal to the older sibling who gets all the brand new stuff, as the little sister has to play with old toys. But so if the town thinks about what it wants to become and applies that vision in creating a gorgeous downtown waterfront, it can display to that next-door neighbor how good quality a metropolitan can be.
A town’s history is important, but so is its future direction. New ideas need to be embraced. Hoquiam, like many small towns, needs to be brave in embracing its possibilities for that future — it can preserve its history even as it evolves.
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