🧱Factions of Self‑Preservation 7: Fading from the Map

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🧱Factions of Self‑Preservation 7: Fading from the Map

How Cultural Amnesia Is Quietly Undermining Hickory’s Civic Future

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Hickory’s story is slipping through its own fingers. As churches close, libraries move, and the local paper shrinks to three print days a week, the city is losing its cultural memory—the shared identity that once bound neighbors, generations, and civic purpose together. Without that continuity, Hickory risks becoming a place that forgets what made it whole.

Key Topics & Phrases:

• Hickory cultural amnesia

• Loss of civic identity

• Hickory Daily Record decline

• Elliott–Carnegie Library history

• Ridgeview Public Library legacy

• Local journalism collapse

• Civic rituals and storytelling

• Regional heritage preservation

• Cultural and generational memory gaps

• Western North Carolina civic future
  
  

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