When Small Towns Take the Big Stage

Article/Op-Ed in The Atlantic
Courtesy of Deb Fallows. (c) 2019 The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC
July 8, 2019
The longer and farther that Jim and I have traveled with our earlier American Futures reporting in The Atlantic, and then with Our Towns the book, and now for this new Our Towns project, the more frequently people have asked some version of these questions:
We admire how Greenville has rebuilt its downtown and Main Street from seedy to spectacular, but how do we do that?

Read more about Our Towns at the Atlantic.