There was a time when people relied on the town square. They may have called it the village green or the market square or the piazza. They would have come to exchange information or to gather the news of the day, and public notices would have been posted and important dates would have been pinned to the pole or kiosk or shelter in the square. The town square was the engine of commerce and served as a communications hub long before anyone had the notion of anything more complex than a bulletin board.
The 21st-Century Town Square
