ittie MILES OF literature are written about big cities. The pro- spective visitor can find out everything he needs to know — and a whole lot of stuff like sewage statistics that he doesn’t — by browsing in any bookstore. And it has been quite an adventure, visiting many of those big cities. But aren’t small towns fun? We love the ones that skipped the wreckers, or ones where local historical groups have stopped the destruction and Sovingly restored the past. _ So many small towns are just waiting to be visited. If you hear about them, lucky you. Even in my line of work it’s often an accident when I learn about some wonderful little ' village. We'll drive a hundred miles out of our way to follow a back road to history. That’s how we found Aurora, Oregon. Had it not been for a North Shore reader, we’d never have heard of it. I’d love to thank him by name but although I carried his ~ letter for three weeks, 1 managed - to lose it after we returned. Aurora is a few miles vast of I-5, about mid-way between . Salem and Portland. it can also be