The Unexpected Gift of Tourism: Seeing Home Through Someone Else's Eye
A few years ago, a woman named Jackie Calvert stepped off a riverboat in Henderson, Kentucky, while on an Ohio River cruise she had been planning for quite some time. She was from Florida, and I imagine relocating to a small town in western Kentucky wasn't exactly on her bingo card. Somewhere between arriving at our riverfront and heading back to the boat, Henderson got its hooks in her. Today, Jackie calls Henderson home and has become an active, engaged member of the community she first discovered as a tourist.
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OUR STORIES ABOUT THE HISTORY AND THE FUTURE OF WORK IN KENTUCKY
Truly collaborative efforts must be forward-looking, cross-region, and cross-sector. They must foster, facilitate, and act as a catalyst for developing a culture and capacity for resilient, deliberate innovation. And they must be about designing futures in which all of us can see ourselves. (It’s understandably hard to be excited about a future you don’t see as available to you.) These futures should not merely be open to--rather, I’d argue we’d all benefit when they are significantly driven by--initiatives from voices and communities too often left out of that discussion--innovative efforts/voices from rural communities, communities of color, refugee populations, LGBTQ perspectives, and other groups who have too often not been given equal opportunity to dream what the future might be.
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THE DENIM DREAMS OF BART SIGHTS
A Henderson, Ky. native and Centre College graduate, Bart Sights has produced groundbreaking new techniques, technologies and structural improvements that have catapulted Levi’s to unprecedented heights.
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