Back to the 80’s for Dunwoody

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This was a great weekend here in Dunwoody.  Not only did we have gorgeous weather we had the Dunwoody Music Festival to keep us entertained.

Saturday was a packed day.  Amanda and I took the kids to the Dunwoody Library in the morning for their “We Love Our Library Day”.  It was a blast.  We hit the Story Time, made Pirate hooks, played games outside, saw bees in their hive and Ian and Nate both had swords and belts made out of balloons for them.  We ran into friends and neighbors as well.  A great morning.

Back home for a quick lunch and the baby sitter got there.  Amanda and I headed out to the Dunwoody Music Festival for the afternoon.  Good music, lots of booths and again, running into more friends and neighbors.  I even bought a Cigar Box Guitar, now I need to learn how to play it.

Back home a quick dinner and then to movie night at the church.  Wallace and Grommit were the featured entertainers for the evening.

I had pre-arranged to sneak out of the movie and head back to the Music Festival for the headliners.  One of the other dads at movie night was my accomplice.

Once there we ran into a lot of folks.  People from the CVB, the Chamber, friends and neighbors and then what?  Two of my best friends from high school were there and didn’t even call.  What’s up with that?  They were there with some friends from the old neighborhood, Kingsley.  It’s always good to run into friends from the old days.  They keep you grounded.  It makes sense now, they helped to get me grounded in high school a few times and same stuff now.

The headliners were a band made up of people from some of the biggest bands from the 80’s.  The lead singer and guitar player from 38 Special, the drummer from Billy Joel, Sheryl Crow’s guitar player and another guy from Survivor and others.  Really good music.  The best part was watching the band interact.  They were having a great time.  After trading guitar licks one of the guys gave the other guy one of those “Did you really just do that?” look.  The smile back said “Yes I did!”  These guys were rocking!

While listening to the songs it reminded me of some of the candidates running for office here in Dunwoody.  Some seem to want to take Dunwoody back to the 80’s as well. If you listen to what they are saying and look at the people who are helping them to say the things they say, it’s there.  There is a large contingent of people who raised kids here in Dunwoody in the 70’s and 80’s and believe that if we can just do now what they wanted to do with the city to be back then that everything will be better.  The only problem with that way of thinking is that we’ve already attracted all of those people, back in the 70’s and 80’s.  Dunwoody needs to continue to grow and evolve to attract new families to move here to raise their kids and keep our property values high and provide our kids with great friends and classmates.

Back to the 80’s is great for a music festival, but it’s a really bad idea when it comes to building a future for our city.