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Town: New York

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Historical view of the Amphitheater at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, scene of Friday, Aug. 12's attack on Salman Rushdie. [Image from New York Public Library via Wikimedia Commons.]
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  • Arts

What Happened at Chautauqua, and Why It Matters

  • Deborah Fallows and James Fallows
  • August 13, 2022
Friday, Aug. 12, an assailant rushed the stage at the Chautauqua Institution. He stabbed Salman Rushdie in the neck and abdomen. Rushdie was not the only victim in this attack.
The Fisk/Burgess House in Redlands is on the National Register of Historic Places, and is one of 20 noteworthy sites fourth-graders experience along the Smiley Heritage Tour. (Courtesy A.K. Smiley Public Library)
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  • K-12

Never Too Soon: Engaging America’s Youngest Citizens Early and Often

  • Allie Kuroff
  • April 18, 2022
Americans know that retaining their young people requires getting them involved in the civic process early and often.
The Keene Valley Library in Keene, New York
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  • Libraries

Building Bridges within and among Communities through Stories

  • Allie Kuroff
  • February 8, 2022
Not all bridges are physical. The ways communities are connecting with one another, and themselves, is happening differently in light of COVID-19 and with new tools like OurStoryBridge: an online platform that captures and houses community stories.
A collection of Our Towns players from Ajo, Arizona; Erie, Pennsylvania; and Columbus, Mississippi. From left to right: Morgan Adams, Ben Speggen, Erin Williams, Ferki Ferati, Dairian Bowles, Stuart Siegel, Emily Siegel, Deb Fallows, Jim Fallows, and Chuck Yarborough, standing in front of the Chautauqua Institution's Hall of Missions. (Courtesy of Deborah Fallows)
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  • Economic Development

When Small Towns Take the Big Stage

  • Deborah Fallows
  • July 8, 2019
Connecting Ajo, Columbus, and Erie
Bookshelves in a library filled with brail books for the blind.
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  • Libraries

A Public Library Brings Opportunity to the Blind

  • Deborah Fallows
  • June 29, 2019
The Heiskell Library in NYC provides both unique and also ordinary library services to its clientele.
The Athenaeum hotel and restaurant at Chautauqua in August, 2015. (James Fallows)
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  • Citizen Engagement

Civic Engagement Talk in America’s Original Engaged Communities

  • James Fallows
  • February 8, 2016
The Chautauqua Institution is one of America’s great centers for civil, cultural, and intellectual engagement. A talk about 21st-century American renewal, at a place whose history traces to a great 19th-century reform movement.
The outside of The New York Public Library.
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  • Libraries

The New New York Public Library

  • Deborah Fallows
  • June 30, 2015
Preserving tradition while expanding offerings for a bigger, broader audience.

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