Two Our Towns favorite themes: Importance and power of local journalism. Citizen engagement on local issues. The two come together in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Beyond words and pictures. A better, richer way to tell and read stories online. Maps, timelines, sliding images, video, audio enhance well-chosen words. ArcGIS StoryMaps Our Towns Civic Foundation James Fallows Charles River Watershed Association ourtownsfoundation.org/how-story-maps…

More coming soon on winners of the Our Towns special StoryMap competition. Crab pots! Charles River dams!

Our Towns proud to feature Project Fighting Chance in our HBO documentary.

Governors' Schools are brilliant example of American high school education at its best. We know about MS, SC, and NC. Others we should know?

A replicable idea and another reason why local public libraries are important.

What we learn about towns by showing up in their public spaces and public places.

Our Towns is a big fan of Esri StoryMaps. Learn all about it. Try it yourself. Enter the Esri competition. Win!

Our Towns is launching a fall season with a new website and mission. Please have a look!

Taking 'Our Towns' to Ukraine.

Back to FL's Gulf Coast to check on Deb's 101-yr-old mom (doing great, thanks!) and late season turtle hatches. Looking toward record-breaking numbers in 2023 despite losing some hatches to the very hot and dry summer. Turtle patrol monitoring continues.
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Back again up Downeast. Good news from Eastport, Maine. Our Towns Civic Foundation
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We at Our Towns are often asked: What's your favorite town? Our Answer: 'We love all our children equally.' But... we really love Eastport.

Summer Reading:

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Try your e-bike here! Libraries lend books, snow shovels, rakes, games, seeds, hotspots, and so much more. And now: E-bikes. Good for the environment, good for transportation, good for well-being of people.

N435SR in the very hot skies. Final leg from San Bernardino to El Paso to Dallas to Nashville (fuel) to DC. Pilot Jim Fallows; right seat Deb Fallows. 100,000 Miles and then some.. James Fallows

Our Towns back in the air after 100,000 miles. Today in Fresno, aka Fres-Yes! A proud and unapologetic town.

Maybe our hottest flight in 100,000 miles.

Thanks to the hard work from California Climate Action Corps and U of Redlands students.

Fascinating diversity of tasks, problems and domains addressed through #Geography concepts with #geospatial methods and techniques! #EsriUC2023