XlocalX

Concept An idea looking for readers.

Your town,
by someone who lives there.

One short note a week on the few things near you that are worth leaving the house for. Written by a person in your town, from walking around in it.

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How it would work

  1. Pick your X.

    Your town, how far you are willing to go, and up to three things you care about. New places, live music, markets, kids, makers, volunteering. That is your X.

  2. A local picks the best of it.

    Each town would have one writer, the town's X. Someone who reads the flyer taped to the bakery door and can tell you in two sentences whether the market is worth the drive.

  3. One note a week.

    A handful of items, each a sentence or two, matched to your X. Short enough to read while the coffee brews. It would arrive once a week and then leave you alone.

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Fill in your X and a sample note assembles itself. Everything in the sample is invented to show the form. No real place, event or person appears in it.

How far you'd go
What you care about (pick up to three)

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XlocalX

Your townThe walkable edition

Hi from your town,

Everything this week is a short walk from the middle of town. Leave the car where it is.

  • New places

    Someone turned the corner garage into a two-table bakery. Two kinds of bread, both gone by ten.end of the block

  • Markets

    Saturday morning flea market in the church lot, eight to noon. The furniture goes first.across the square

  • Volunteering

    Creek cleanup Saturday at nine, meet at the footbridge. Gloves and bags provided; wear boots.a 6 minute walk

See you out there, your X in your town

Example only. Every item on this card is invented to show the shape of a note. None of it is a real place, event or person.

Future tense

Know your town?
Be its X.

Each town would have one writer: the person who already goes to things and notices when the sign changes on the corner lot. Once a week they would write the note for their town, under their own name.

If that sounds like you, or like someone you know, tell us where you are. When writers are needed, towns with a name on the list would come first.

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