City Makers: American Futures (original) (raw)

Jefferson Educational Society of Erie

Maitham Basha-Agha, for Erie Reader

Deborah Fallows

Deborah Fallows

Deborah Fallows

Aerial photo copyright Don Dunbar

Deborah Fallows

James Fallows

Deborah Fallows

Returning to Ohio

How a small, Midwestern town has changed over the decades—and where it aims to go

December 12, 2016

Deborah Fallows

Norman Rockwell, 'Freedom From Want,' US National Archives

The Central Library in Birmingham, Alabama: Linn-Henley Research Library and the East Building

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"Raising Literacy," Robert Dawson

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What It Takes to Settle Refugees

The people of Erie, Pennsylvania, have welcomed immigrants and refugees, and believe that their town is better off for having done so.

October 28, 2016

'Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains,' Albert Bierstadt, 1868, Smithsonian Institute via Wikimedia

Nicolas Pollock / The Atlantic

Nicolas Pollock / The Atlantic

James Fallows

Deborah Fallows

Wikimedia

Outside The Lines

A postcard from Quoddy Village in Eastport, Maine, from between circa 1930 and circa 1945

Boston Public Library Tichnor Brothers collection

Mark Fainstein

Erie's Unlikely Benefactor: Its Casino

Legalized gambling is a familiar part of the modern American landscape. But an innovative scheme in a lakeside city in western Pennsylvania shows new possibilities for putting casino revenue to positive public use.

September 11, 2016

courtesy Quoddy Tides

Allison Osberg / Courtesy of Tides Institute and Museum of Art

Little Town, Big Art

“The arts” might seem a frill or nicety. In Eastport, Maine, they’ve been at the center of economic and civic plans and have helped the little city “punch above its weight.”

September 9, 2016

Courtesy of Erie County Public Library

A Waterfront Library

In Erie, Pennsylvania, a public institution is building on its nautical past to open a world of opportunity for local residents.

September 5, 2016

James Fallows

James Fallows

James Fallows

Mohammad Zkrit and three of his four children stand on the porch of their newly-rented home in Erie, Pennsylvania. The family fled the ongoing civil war in Syria and have been resettled in the United States.

Taylor Aikins

'America Is a Dream Country'

What does it mean to spend years as a Syrian refugee and then land in a brand new life in Erie, Pennsylvania?

August 26, 2016

Joel Deuterman, founder and CEO of Velocity Network, outside downtown Erie’s now-abandoned Rothrock Building, which he bought and will make his company's headquarters

Nick Warren / Erie Reader

Erie and America

The challenges of Rust Belt America are real, and well-known. What’s less familiar is the response some mid-sized cities are making.

August 25, 2016

Fans at the 2012 London Olympics hold cutouts of U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte.

David Gray / Reuters

The front of the Carnegie Center for the Arts in Dodge City, Kansas

Deborah Fallows