Born with joy and hope, the new village soon found itself bound by the realities of the world. Things happened. Not very good things. Then, just a quickly, everything changed. Why? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary “A Look Back (Part II): A Pre-Civil War (1855) View Of A Rebounding Village” and find out not only how low things got, but what even triggered the dramatic turnaround.
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