Clare in 2079

I ran across this today while training a student how to find material in the stacks. Clare 2079 was a centennial project of the Clare Public Schools and Mid-MI Arts Council including students' poems, ideas, and drawings by Clare students about how they envisioned life might be in 2079. Here are a few entries I found very interesting. One drawing included flying cars like the Jetsons, but cooler looking, more like hotrods and less like sedans. The cover drawing was a vision of a future Arts Council building. It reminds me of the Sydney Opera House. The Doherty, Ideal Theatre, and public library, major Clare buildings, appeared in most of the drawings, while many of the 1979 stores that were once in Clare that they drew in futuristic style are long gone. Above on the right we see the library in its former building with a glass dome on the top with a tree growing in it. I wonder where the students are who contributed to this gem and if they even remember this project? What an awesome idea it was. It's interesting to me that a third grader had so many interesting ideas (below), some of which are correct nearly 50 years after he wrote this. Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for flying cars.