Health

A Rural Health Center With a Pandemic Plan

Read the story in The Atlantic  here. Downtown Eastport, from above Courtesy of Don Dunbar 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 first of some 50 towns that Jim and visited during our reporting across […]

Arts

HOW ARTISTS BUILD THE SPIRIT OF A TOWN

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.

Arts

AN ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE CREATES A SENSE OF PLACE

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 consider an resident-artist extraordinaire. Over the past three and a half years, Richelle (as I’ll refer to her) has been an artist-in-residence in 15 different programs around […]

Health

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

Eastport Grapples with Health-Care

Economic & Business Development

‘Local, Local, Local’:

How a Small Newspaper Survives

Arts

Flying Down East

Headed back to Eastport

Economic & Business Development

Eastport Postcard

A report on progress in Eastport.

Economic & Business Development

The End of the Journey

N435SR parked at its new home at the San Bernardino Airport in California (Deborah Fallows) Arriving in Tucson, we felt the inklings of coming full circle with our American Futures project. Only one more leg of our journey, about 400 miles, before we reached our destination of the San Bernardino airport, and on to a writing base at the University […]

Economic & Business Development

A Big Step for Little Eastport

A new life for the Seacoast Canning Company

Arts

All Progress Is Local:

New Year's Notes from Around the Country

Arts

Update on the Eastport Saga

The never-say-die city

Economic & Business Development

The Ebbs and Flows of Coastal Maine

Quoddy Village was built ahead of its time

Economic & Business Development

Cattle Drives in Down East Maine

A cowboy with his herd in Maine, en route to Turkey. courtesy Quoddy Tides Last night my wife Deb put up a report called “Little Town, Big Art.” It’s about how a surprisingly ambitious effort in The Arts—painting, sculpture, photography, drama, music, festivals (like the Pirate Festival underway this weekend), etc.—had given a very small place a much […]

Arts

Little Town, Big Art

The arts at the center of economic and civic plans

Economic & Business Development

The World Comes to a Tiny Town

Eastport's Lesson in Globalization

Economic & Business Development

Eastport Update: Electric Power from the Sea

Generation from currents