Geneva, New York is lighting up on a Friday night, and James Brown is there to take it all in. Pedestrians are out under the lights, music is filling the streets, and waitresses are working the floor as couples and friends settle in for the evening. It's a ground-level look at what community feels like in a small Finger Lakes town.
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This is Dispatches from America.
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I'm James A.
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Brown.
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This dispatch comes from Geneva, New York, a tiny city in the Finger Lakes.
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It's wine country.
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It's Friday night in midsummer on an old brick street right smack in the middle of town.
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Cars aren't welcome here because this pocket, it's for pedestrians to roam beneath sparkling strings of light.
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This bit of urbanism is flooded with music and commerce as the way waitresses sling cocktails and appetizers to those on first dates and date nights and old friends reuniting less than a block away.
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The guitar gives way to crickets shimmering above the street lights.
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It's the joy of small town America.
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Nature isn't too far away.
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So what do you think?
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Let me know on jamesabrown.net on that note, I'm James A.
