He is besieged with speaking invitations from colleges and civic groups, and he happened to arrive in our area on just such a mission. After giving a talk at Northern Kentucky University, he patiently allowed us to drive him around various gruesome intersections. Tell us, we said, what you see as the good, the bad and the unbearable. You go to Dayton and you expect mummies to be lurching around there. It's such a graveyard.
People can walk to the library or the grocery store for a quart of milk.
Houses are built to last, with generous proportions. Neighborhoods like Mansion Hill could use more small, scattered parks, but children can still play in these kinds of streets, because they weren't laid out to assist cars in speeding. These are wonderful, solid brick buildings . . . . The scale is really sweet and comfortable and intimate. They're very nicely decorated, very nicely embellished, and they have real, enduring value.