New Website, smallwander.com, Promotes Small Towns and Offers Training for Merchants, Leaders
05-30-2008

HILLSBOROUGH, NC – Searching for travel information about small towns? A new Website, www.smallwander.com, has just been launched to help you. It features charming walkable towns with fewer than 10,000 people, cultural or historical heritage and locally-owned businesses, including accommodations. Towns must feature a distinct viable downtown, not one spread out or one with lots of empty store-fronts.

The idea is that you can park your car, wander, shop, eat and spend a day or two without having to get back into your car until you leave the town…

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This is the first podcast of our monthly teleseminar series. This seminar was held on January 28, 2008. Our guest was Carol Wiersma of the Mississippi Valley Partnership. We discussed the value of creating travel partnerships among communities.

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An excerpt from an article from the Orange County, NC Visitor’s Bureau…

By Michael Malone

In Casablanca, “Everybody comes to Ric’s.” In Hillsborough, everybody comes to Churton Street, where now, on curiously balmy winter days, sidewalks bustle with outdoor diners under umbrellas and with shoppers carrying parcels. Everybody comes, and more and more, they fall in love.

Hillsborough, the seat of Orange County, has a past. Its downtown blocks commemorate so many crucial scenes in our nation’s founding that drivers do not have time to read the historical markers, even in traffic, as they go through town. It had a past in 1000 A.D. when Occaneechie Indians lived and traded here. It had a past when Revolutionary firebrands chased away the Royal Governor and fought the Battle of Alamance, years before Paul Revere galloped into Concord, Massachusetts, yelling that the British were coming…

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[For general information about Hillsborough, visit www.ci.hillsborough.nc.us or www.historichillsborough.org. For specific details on Hillsborough, visit smallwander.com.]