The officer waves.
People mill on the sidewalks, chatting about the weather, the kids, the fishing.
It's small, easy, not too fancy or full of itself, friendly in a low-key way. New entrepreneurs, many of them young families, have fixed up crumbly, old buildings and installed art galleries, brewhouses with handmade ales, bead shops, garden shops, antique stores, restaurants and bookstores where discussions of John Steinbeck or Robertson Davies can stretch out over long afternoons. At one end is the Scott-Milo Gallery, with exhibits of local artists such as McCool, Al Currier and Don de Llamas. We're a little more offbeat, a little different. Before this official pronouncement, the town was alternately called Squaw Harbor, Ship Harbor and, most popularly, The Magic City.