EASTPORT, ME
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