If you live inside the 3.5 square miles between Mockingbird and the Katy Trail, you already know summer here does not run on a festival calendar. It runs on a pool schedule, a few standing park hours, and a short walk to somewhere cold to drink after. The Village storefronts turn over every season. The rhythm underneath them does not.
That is the small, useful thing to remember when July gets long. The neighborhood's best summer hours are the ones the Town publishes and the ones your neighbors quietly repeat. Everything else is optional.
The Town of Highland Park treats the pool at Davis Park like a scheduled event, not an amenity.
