Main Street Matters

When Main Street is alive, small-town America is too. And our small towns are the heart of America.

There’s something called natal homing. Sea turtles have it. They can be born on a beach, swim thousands of miles across the ocean, and still feel the pull to return to the very shore where they began.

My wife and I know something of that pull.

We traveled all over America with our children. But several years ago, we felt the call to come home. Back to the Midwest. Back to greater Cincinnati.

I grew up in the small towns of southern Indiana, just across the river. My wife grew up on Cincinnati’s east side. We met while still in high school, and I spent my younger years coming down to this neck of the woods, falling in love with places like Amelia, New Richmond, Milford, and the kind of small-town life they represent.

So when it was time to come back to the beaches of youth, so to speak, we chose Clermont County.

We believed good things were happening here. We believed this was a place worth planting roots. So we made it our goal to set up shop in the heart of Clermont County, in Batavia Township, to plant a church in the Village of Batavia and to help bring business with us. By God’s grace, we’ve been able to do exactly that over the last seven years.

We love Clermont County. We love our township. We love our village. And we believe Main Street is at the heart of it all.

Main Street is more than old buildings and storefronts. It is where local business grows, where families gather, where neighbors cross paths, and where children learn to love the place they call home. It is where the character of a town is preserved and passed down.

We are committed to preserving the beauty, safety, and distinct charm of small-town America. We want thriving Main Streets where businesses can flourish, families can take an evening walk, and people can experience the kind of rooted community that helped make this country strong.

We believe Main Street matters because as Main Street goes, so go our small towns. And our small towns are the heart of this country.

This Facebook page, which will eventually be followed by a full website, is dedicated to documenting the work we’re doing here in Batavia, and we hope it will be a help and an encouragement to others who share our love for small-town America.

Americans ought to rise up and protect these places from falling into disrepair and disappearing. Because if we lose our small towns, we lose far more than old buildings.

We lose a way of life. That’s why Main Street matters.