Essays from West of 98 A Third Place

Where is local culture created? How do you build relationships and strengthen a community? In 1989, sociologist Ray Oldenburg wrote a book called “The Great Good Place,” theorizing the idea of the “third place.” We spend most of our time in two primary places, home and work. Our interactions there exist only with certain subsets of the population and under certain constraints. At home, we…

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