LOOKING FOR CULTURE
CAN MR. GOODBAR BE FAR BEHIND?

For the past several weeks I have had the privilege of pounding the pavement in Macon’s downtown looking for something called ‘culture’.

Now culture is a very elusive thing. My summer’s research has done nothing to help clarify its meaning. It is subjective, impossible to quantify, and defies any government bean counter’s feeble attempts to do so.

In a series of articles running through most of the summer, I am taking a look at things and places that appeal to me on a cultural level. A purely subject cultural level. Absent will be the major museums, halls of fame, entertainment venues. These get all the attention anyway.

What I am looking for is something more elusive, small, out of the way businesses, venues, stores, street corners, places that exude whimsy, real thinking, innovation, and the oddball.

Many downtown business people will be disappointed, of course. They will not be included. Nor should they be. The series spotlights only a relatively few of the hundreds of possibilities. Many of them will be unfamiliar to most maconites.

FLOODING heading our way. Nothing like ’94, so far predicted, but the River Walk is under water as this is being typed and more rain expected as fallouit from Dennis the Menace.