Our Towns Returns to Eastport, Maine, Ten Years Later
Deb and Jim Fallows talk with David Dahl of The Maine Monitor.
Town: Eastport
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A Look at Lobstering and Craftsmanship
Eastport, Maine has a long history of resilience. It’s still there today in Elijah Brice.
Ajo, Charleston, and Eastport take to the digital stage to talk rural resilience
What do Ajo, Arizona; Charleston, West Virginia; Eastport, Maine have in common? For starters, they were all featured in a recent panel discussion that Our Towns hosted at the Rural…
A Rural Health Center With a Pandemic Plan
The Rowland B. French Medical Center is the primary health-care facility for the residents of Eastport, Maine, a tiny Down East fishing town, population 1,400. Eastport was one of the…
How Artists Build the Spirit of a Town
During our travels to towns around the U.S., Jim Fallows and I have come across several artist-in-residence programs, for example in Ajo, Arizona; Eastport, Maine; and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
An Artist-in-Residence Creates a Sense of Place
We’ve seen artist-in-residence programs in a number of the towns we’ve visited. The first was in Eastport, Maine, where we ran into Richelle Gribble, a young artist based in Los Angeles, whom I…
The Surprising Rural Health-Care Legacy of the ’60s
Eastport Grapples with Health-Care
‘Local, Local, Local’: How a Small Newspaper Survives
This is another road report on the state of local journalism, which is more and more important, and more and more imperiled.
It is important because so much of the future of American economic, cultural, and civic life is now being devised and determined at the local or state level.
The Gift of a Public Library
A legacy that continues.
Flying Down East
Headed back to Eastport
Eastport Postcard
A report on progress in Eastport.
The End of the Journey
Arriving in Tucson, we felt the inklings of coming full circle with our American Futures project. Only one more leg of our journey, about 400 miles, before we reached our destination of…
A Big Step for Little Eastport
A new life for the Seacoast Canning Company
All Progress Is Local: New Year’s Notes From Around the Country
New Year's Notes from Around the Country
Update on the Eastport Saga
The never-say-die city
The Ebbs and Flows of Coastal Maine
Quoddy Village was built ahead of its time