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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.
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.
The Nashville Public Library (Wangkun Jia / Shutterstock)
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  • Libraries

A Big Little Idea From Nashville

  • Deborah Fallows
  • September 30, 2019
During our travels visiting towns and cities across the country for American Futures and now Our Towns, Jim Fallows (my husband) and I have encountered story after story of short, sweet initiatives…
The central library of the Forsyth County Public Library (Deborah Fallows)
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  • Libraries

The Library That’s Also an Art Gallery

  • Deborah Fallows
  • September 17, 2019
A "hub of Winston-Salem in touch with the people."
Road with the words "Good Health," painted on it.
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  • Health & Well-Being

The Surprising Rural Health-Care Legacy of the ’60s

  • Deborah Fallows
  • September 4, 2019
Eastport Grapples with Health-Care
The Peavey Memorial Library in Eastport, Maine (Courtesy of the Tides Institute & Museum of Art)
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  • Libraries

The Gift of a Public Library

  • Deborah Fallows
  • August 28, 2019
A legacy that continues.
The view from our plane this week, headed to Maine (Deborah Fallows)
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  • Arts
  • Economic Development

Flying Down East

  • Deborah Fallows
  • August 15, 2019
Headed back to Eastport
Murals on the wall of the teen space in the Brownsville Public Library's main branch (Courtesy of Deborah Fallows)
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  • Libraries

A Public Library of, by, and for the People

  • Deborah Fallows
  • August 6, 2019
A "how to" on staying relevant through invention and reinvention
The new 'Arc of Dreams' sculpture over the Big Sioux River in downtown Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in July 2019, shortly before its formal unveiling. (James Fallows / The Atlantic)
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  • Civic Life

How a City Talks About Itself: Sioux Falls

  • Deborah Fallows
  • July 29, 2019
In June 2013, my husband, Jim, and I first landed our small, single-engine Cirrus propeller airplane at the main airport, Joe Foss Field, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It was the first…
From the Brownsville side, the wall. On the other side is the Rio Grande, whose centerline marks the official border between the United States and Mexico in this part of Texas. (James Fallows / The Atlantic)
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  • Economic Development

‘A River, Not A Border’: Report from Brownsville

  • Deborah Fallows
  • July 14, 2019
Striving together for good health and well being in a Texas border town.

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