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HBO documentary Our Towns, based on a magazine project and book, visits six US towns for a portrait of local resilience and regeneration before the pandemic
In the summer of 2013, James and Deborah Fallows polled readers of the Atlantic, the magazine where James had worked as a correspondent and editor for over 40 years, for recommendations: why should they visit their town? The married couple, both journalists, were equipped with a single-engine Cirrus SR22 propeller plane, an open itinerary, and the backing of a major magazine project to explore local responses in small and mid-size towns across the US to the long shadow of the Great Recession.
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