A fun thing about getting toward the end of one's life is to look at all the stuff you've collected. Stuff you really don't want to throw out but which you don't want to leave to friends to have to throw out. Searching paperwork I had squeezed into drawers and closet floors through the years, I recently came across a booklet that took me on a memory trip.

What I rediscovered is a glossy visionary booklet of 107 pages that gives an early view of Portsmouth's then-future renaissance. Published 52 years ago, leafing through it can remind us how our community evolved into the exciting, although for many unaffordable, place it has become.

It's also a reminder that the policies and actions our leaders take today will similarly affect Portsmouth of the year 2077, which — I'll do the math — is j

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