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Three Big Lessons From One Small Town
Connections, parallel themes, and lessons from Danville
Sioux Falls is Ready for Tom Hanks
A year ago, America’s Favorite Actor™, Tom Hanks, triggered a series of reports on TV and in the Argus Leader newspaper in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He did so with one little…
‘A River, Not A Border’: Report from Brownsville
Striving together for good health and well being in a Texas border town.
Featured on WDTN Dayton
WDTN TV’s BJ Bethel summarized a recent Ohio State University/Carnegie Endowment for Peace report with 10 takeaways. Number 10, “Microbreweries = Healthy City” was taken from the Our Towns list of 11…
Referenced in The American Spectator
In his American Spectator review of American Restoration: How Faith, Family, and Personal Sacrifice Can Heal Our Nation, G.Tracy Mehan III cites James and Deborah Fallows and Our Towns on,…
The American Sense of Place
An update: Reactions from readers and significant local-renewal developments
When Small Towns Take the Big Stage
Connecting Ajo, Columbus, and Erie
The Rituals of ‘Becoming America’
Can 'civic religion' help America become a better, freer, fairer, finer version of itself?
A Public Library Brings Opportunity to the Blind
The Heiskell Library in NYC provides both unique and also ordinary library services to its clientele.
Referenced in Little Rock Soiree
Hank Kelley, the new president of the Rotary Club of Little Rock, has big plans, inspired in part by Our Towns. Read the article here.
Report for America Revives Possibilities for Local Journalism
A promising movement, in discouraging times.
An American Story, Starting in Kosovo
Idealistic people from outside America's borders have continually prompted the country to live up to its own ideals; an example from Erie.
A Regional Approach to Rural Healthcare Challenges
God's Storehouse, a food pantry serving low-income people along this southernmost border where Virginia meets North Carolina.
How Danville Has Avoided Omaha’s Mistake
How the bittersweet heritage of old buildings in Danville, Virginia has helped them avoid the mistakes of Omaha..
Bitwise Goes Big
Fresno tech startup, Bitwise gets $27 million in funding to expand its operations.