Arec Ligon

Your first place is where you live, second place is where you work. When you want to find community, Linger is your guide to third places.

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Farm-to-table quality does not have to come with farm-to-table formality.

Explore Heirloom on Linger:
https://t.co/UqjkohLciY

#HeirloomFresno #LingerCommunity

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Where would you spend your Unplanned Hour?

Explore a place nearby at https://t.co/dOcHtHKQCh

#TheUnplannedHour #ThirdPlaces #LingerCommunity #LocalLife #EverydayDiscovery #CommunityConnection #ExploreLocal

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You do not have to be the loudest person in the room to influence how that room feels.

What role do you most often play: Connector, Planner, Welcomer, Listener, Storyteller, Steady Regular, or something else entirely?

#LingerCommunity

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Think of a community noticeboard as a local recommendation system whose organizing principle is proximity, not prediction.

What is the most unexpected thing you have ever discovered on a local noticeboard?

#CommunityNoticeboard

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A healthy neighborhood does not require everyone to become close friends. It needs enough reliable familiarity that asking for help does not begin between complete strangers.

What small gesture has made you feel more at home among your neighbors?

#GoodNeighborDay

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At @locali_westchester, someone can meet friends over California wine, settle in for an acoustic performance, bring a favorite record to vinyl night, share unfinished work in a songwriter circle, get on an open mic, or simply listen from a comfortable seat.

#LingerCommunity

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Thoughtful community design is not about making a place look impressive. It is about removing small points of friction so people can stay, participate, and feel at ease.

Explore more ideas in Linger’s Resource Library:
https://t.co/KepiSg53vi

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This fall, do not only look for the place with the best seasonal atmosphere.

Choose one place and return often enough to experience it beyond a single visit.

What local place feels more like itself when fall arrives?

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The most useful technology for community may be technology designed to make itself unnecessary.

https://t.co/yJh6vbVZqH

After listening, tell me: What information would make you feel more comfortable visiting a new third place?

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The most useful technology for community may be technology designed to make itself unnecessary.

https://t.co/yJh6vbVZqH

After listening, tell me: What information would make you feel more comfortable visiting a new third place?

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An event alone may not make a third place, but a connected rhythm of events can help people discover one, and keep returning until it feels like their place.

What do you think? Can recurring events help build a stronger sense of community?

https://t.co/dOcHtHKQCh

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Every accurate addition lowers uncertainty for the next person considering a visit.

The goal is not to decide whether Elf ’N Moon is universally “the best.” It is to help someone understand whether it might be their kind of place.

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Spaces like that give people something surprisingly valuable: permission to simply be present. And when people feel comfortable enough to stay, connection has room to happen without being forced. Linger believes community does not always begin with an introduction.

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A useful test for any third place is not only, “What does this space provide?” It is also:

Do newcomers get acknowledged?
Do regulars recognize one another?
Does someone make conversation easier without forcing it?
Can a person gradually become known here?

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Third places give us room to meet, talk, and belong. Community care is one way we help those places, and the relationships they make possible, remain strong.

#InternationalDayOfCharity #CommunityCare #ThirdPlaces #GiveLocal #CommunityAction #LingerCommunity

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Read “How I Built a Third Place Platform Using Lessons From Gardening”:

https://t.co/MMC3LbTTH0

#ThirdPlaces #CommunityBuilding #CivicLife #Placemaking #LocalConnection #TheFrankForum #LingerCommunity

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The person helping hold your neighborhood together may not call themselves a community leader.

Learn more and apply:
https://t.co/Ov90zY3KAY

#WeaverAwards #MarionCounty

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I recently joined Norm Van Eeden Petersman on Strong Towns’ Bottom-Up Revolution podcast for an episode titled “The Website Mapping America’s Third Places.”

Listen here:
https://t.co/Fa90JSNgts

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The best third places are not always the newest, biggest, or most polished. They are places where simply being together creates enough common ground for connection to begin and gives people a reason to return.

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This week’s Place of the Day is Findlay Market in Cincinnati.

Findlay Market is more than the food stalls inside its building. Its character extends into the surrounding streets through pocket patios, murals, planters, outdoor seating, and storefronts made for people on foot.