Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

By Peter Lovenheim
The New York Times
Published: June 23, 2008
Brighton, N.Y.

Why is it that in an age of cheap long-distance rates, discount airlines and the Internet, when we can create community anywhere, we often don’t know the people who live next door?

Maybe my neighbors didn’t mind living this way, but I did. I wanted to get to know the people whose houses I passed each day — not just what they do for a living and how many children they have, but the depth of their experience and what kind of people they are.

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Image by Sophia Martinek courtesy of The New York Times.