Your Kind of Town

A hometown is more than just geography. Whether you choose where to live or it chooses you, every place has a story to tell. What makes your city, suburb or small town special? Share a favorite memory or anecdote about your kind of town and read what others have to say about their favorite places.

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"Rock Port recently put up for wind turbines to provide electricity to the town and bills itself as 'The first city in America to be 100% wind powered.'"
— Jim Banister from Rock Port, Mo.
"My kind of town, Criders, Virginia, where you still hear people call out, 'Y'all be good now, you hear?'"
— Carol Maureen DeHart from Criders, Va.
"There was a longing in my soul to find a place that I belonged. As much as I loved the beautiful mountains, it was not my birthplace in North Carolina. After searching much of America, San Francisco won my heart."
— D. Owen-Yap from San Francisco, Calif.

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Crestone, Colo.

Paul Pennington
At 8,00 feet above the flat, dry, San Luis Valley lies the pictureesque and auspicious little town of Crestone, Colorado, population 76. The town has ten commercial buildings total, with many busineeses coming and going. Multiple fourteeners tower above, several named for the Spanish word Creston, (Top of a Cock's Comb), there is Crestone Mountain and Crestone Needle, the hardest to climb in state.
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