FROM THE EDITOR
IN 2012, JOURNALISTS James and Deborah Fallows loaded up in their single-engine prop airplane and set out on a 100,000-mile, years-long journey, looking to find stories of community spirit in towns across America. What they discovered, tales of economic and civic reinvention, inspired the excellent new HBO documentary Our Towns, based on their bestselling book of the same name.
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