Rochester it’s not big, nor trendy, not cosmo, nor the center of much of anything globally significant. Though many of us believe we can turn our smugtown into a place the whole world knows for something, we know that’s been a half-century struggle. Most of us would truly settle for making it a better place to...(more) live, and that each of us has a place in that place, somewhere to return when all hell breaks loose or when worldly ambitions seem worlds apart. Rochester: it’s not Paris, nor Hong Kong, but it’s just big enough, just good enough, and the center of things personally significant, to call home. (less)