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Deborah Fallows

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Deborah Fallows is a writer, linguist and fellow at New America. She has written extensively on language, education, families and work, China, and travel for The Atlantic, National Geographic, Slate, The New York Times, The LA Times, and The Washington Monthly.
Bucksport, Maine, from across the Penobscot River. (Photos Deborah Fallows)
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  • Citizen Engagement

Bucksport Maine Finds Its Heart & Soul

  • Deborah Fallows
  • August 18, 2021
How can person-to-person democracy be revived? A one-time mill town in coastal Maine is a laboratory for a new approach.
A row of people sitting at computers in a library.
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  • Libraries

How Libraries Are Leading the Way to Digital Equity

  • Deborah Fallows
  • March 19, 2021
This is a report about how that drama is playing out in one sizable American city, and what its lessons indicate for the country as a whole.
Two people exchanging a stack of books.
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  • Libraries

Why Some Libraries Are Eliminating Fines

  • Deborah Fallows
  • December 4, 2020
Are fines consistent with a fundamental mission of libraries: to serve the public with information and knowledge? And to address that mission equitably across the diverse population of rich and poor library users?
Sign that says "Welcome to Lemmon"
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  • Arts

THE ARTISTS OF LEMMON, SOUTH DAKOTA

  • Deborah Fallows
  • August 13, 2020
The role of the arts in a tiny town with its sights set high
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  • Arts

‘This Is What We Train For’

  • Deborah Fallows
  • May 26, 2020
During our five years of travel around the country, my husband Jim and I often found that artists who revealed the perspectives on their hometowns were the people who stopped us in our tracks.
A statue of Olympic marathon gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson wears a mask outside the library in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
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  • Libraries

The Post-Pandemic Future of Libraries

  • Deborah Fallows
  • May 12, 2020
"I've never been prouder to be a librarian."
Downtown Eastport, from above.
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  • Health & Well-Being

A Rural Health Center With a Pandemic Plan

  • Deborah Fallows
  • April 9, 2020
The Rowland B. French Medical Center is the primary health-care facility for the residents of Eastport, Maine, a tiny Down East fishing town, population 1,400. Eastport was one of the…
The Aurora Public Library in Colorado offers free lunches for people under 18.
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  • Libraries

Public Libraries’ Novel Response to a Novel Virus

  • Deborah Fallows
  • March 31, 2020
America’s public libraries have led the ranks of “second responders,” stepping up for their communities in times of natural or manmade disasters, like hurricanes, floods, shootings, fires, and big downturns…
A "fly-brary," courtesy of the Deschutes Public Library, at the Redmond, Oregon, airport.
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  • Libraries

Looking at Libraries

  • Deborah Fallows
  • December 26, 2019
Continuing the photo essay about public libraries, which showed many examples of children’s rooms and adult spaces, this collection shows some of the multitude of activities happening at public libraries. It also…
The children’s space in the Brownsville Public Library.
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  • Libraries

A Portrait of Public Libraries

  • Deborah Fallows
  • December 23, 2019
Since Jim Fallows and I began traveling the country for American Futures and Our Towns nearly seven years ago, there has been one beat that began as a surprise to me and grew into…
The Tides Institute & Museum in Eastport Maine (left) and other historic buildings along Water Street, (Courtesy of the Tides Institute & Museum of Art)
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  • Arts

How Artists Build the Spirit of a Town

  • Deborah Fallows
  • December 16, 2019
During our travels to towns around the U.S., Jim Fallows and I have come across several artist-in-residence programs, for example in Ajo, Arizona; Eastport, Maine; and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The village of Ajo near the Organ Pipe cactus national monument.
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  • Civic Life

Ajo, Arizona, is the story of a better America

  • Deborah Fallows
  • December 6, 2019
Take a walk through the oasis of green grass and palm trees in the central plaza of the tiny Sonoran Desert town of Ajo in southwest Arizona. You’re likely to run into…
Artist Richelle Gribble with her cotton spider web on kozo washi paper, created during her artist-in-residency in Japan. (Naoki Isoda / Awagami Factory)
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  • Arts

An Artist-in-Residence Creates a Sense of Place

  • Deborah Fallows
  • December 5, 2019
We’ve seen artist-in-residence programs in a number of the towns we’ve visited. The first was in Eastport, Maine, where we ran into Richelle Gribble, a young artist based in Los Angeles, whom I…
Hand holding camera lens that is magnifying a city.
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  • Arts

Photos Can Trigger Change in a Town

  • Deborah Fallows
  • November 22, 2019
In 2008, National Geographic photographer Jodi Cobb and photographer and former Second Lady, Tipper Gore, talked about the role of photography at the then Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The…
At the Rural Women’s Summit.
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  • Economic Development

The Modern Women of Rural America

  • Deborah Fallows
  • November 13, 2019
Along the way of our reporting for American Futures and Our Towns, I ran into the stories of some remarkable women—living and dead. Eliza Tibbets, who planted the first navel oranges in California; Isabella Greenway,…
City of Asylum houses on Sampsonia Way in Pittsburgh
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  • Language

A River of Words in Pittsburgh

  • Deborah Fallows
  • October 21, 2019
As we've traveled around the country with our American Futures and Our Towns projects since 2013, my husband, Jim, and I have evolved from being skeptics to evangelists about the impact of public arts on communities.

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