City Makers: American Futures
The people, organizations, and ideas reshaping the country. A journey piloted by James Fallows with Deborah Fallows.
Greenville, SC
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With the PBS NewsHour, in Greenville S.C.
Last night the PBS NewsHour ran a 10-minute segment hosted by Judy Woodruff and shot in Greenville, South Carolina, where…
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Courtesy of the Greenville County Library System A Public Library Tells the Civic Story of a Town
Greenville’s public library puts its past and present on full display: mills, racial history, internationalism, public-private collaborations, and culture.
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Fisher Middle School Tech Meets Art in Middle School
A South Carolina public school gives tech-savvy students a sense of humanity.
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James Fallows A Song of America's Downtowns
A heartening surprise of our travel so far: the breadth, seriousness, and—in some places—success of the effort to revitalize small-town downtowns. Or, what 3 programmers from Uzbekistan taught us about America.
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Atlantic Video Channel 'Where Do You Go to Church?' The Video and Mapping Versions
More ways of taking the measure of this vast country.
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James Fallows The Vermont Lake Monsters, and Other Updates From the Road
Are people in smaller towns "nicer" than cosmopolitans? No. But their political structures are working better.
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James Fallows Greenville, Burlington, and American Futures
"I loathed it with the heat of a thousand million suns."
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The South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts ... What My School Means to Me: Essays from 3 High Schoolers
How students at an unusual school think—and write—about their experience.
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Dreaming Big in South Carolina: A Public Boarding School for the Arts
by Deborah Fallows
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SCPRT Dadgum! Katy, Bar the Door! Speaking Your Mind in South Carolina
by Deborah Fallows
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Smaller-Town Startups: 'Stopping the Brain Drain' in South Carolina
'People say, this is my ticket Out.' Then, they want to stay.
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America's Tiniest Engineers: Report From Greenville, South Carolina
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Welcome to Greenville and 'The Upstate'
A region that has willed its way to a new economic and civic identity.
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Separated at Birth? Greenville, Sioux Falls
