ABSTRACT
The community center preserves Potter Addition's need for cultural continuity in several other ways. It has taken over many of the socially integrative functions that Betty's Market fulfilled before it closed its doors. There are familial sources of cohesion and cultural continuity as well. Potter Addition is raising its fifth generation of children, and many of its adults are themselves third- and fourth-generation Potter Additionites. A particularly interesting group of young Potter Additionites consists of those who were born in Potter Addition, left the community for several years, and have now returned to put down roots. The migratory movement that shaped the social life of Clay County for more than seventy years—the movement from farm and hamlet to the city and its fringe— has partially reversed itself. Because of Clay County's economic development, several of Potter Addition's young adults have been able to settle in that handful of flourishing villages that have become bedroom communities for Grand Prairie.
