Huntington, meet Paducah

One of former Huntington Mayor David Felinton's failings was his inability to get people to buy into his vision of what Huntington could be. He used the buzz phrase "creative community," but that didn't go anywhere. I don't have any proof, but I get the feeling too many people here equate "creative community" with "let's recruit some gay artists to live here."

According to an article in the Chicago Tribune, Paducah, Ky., which is a little over half the size of Huntington, began a campaign some 15 years ago to become the kind of city that Felinton envisioned for Huntington.

Read the entire thing and see how much of it resembles what Huntington is today.

I spent a few hours in Paducah in 1986 on my way to somewhere else. I need to get back down there. In the past 23 years, I've learned there's a lot in Paducah that I need to see. Not just quilts and Lowertown, but other things that interest me in particular.

And I want to see for myself if Paducah really became what Huntington could be, but never did.