Excerpt from | Oral History Interview with Raymond Rapp, November 17, 2000. Interview K-0253. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) |
Rapp celebrates Mars Hill's "personalism"—its sense of community. He thinks the town absorbs the rural ethos from the surrounding area, which encourages residents to look out for one another, to care for one another, and to cooperate. It is this sense of community that Rapp, as mayor, wants to preserve with great "intentionality."