Asked if Blackburn is everything she'd hoped it would be, Leslie replied: "It's very nice, we both grew up in small towns so we didn't get a big shock, everybody has been very friendly. We've been looking forward to coming over and will definitely be back.

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Photographer and National Geographic Young Explorer Ross McDermott seeks out little-known and offbeat events and festivals for insights into small-town culture and American life.

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Loosely Coalesced Thoughts on a Sunday Afternoon

Sitting at one of my high-top tables, looking out the window on a rainy afternoon, I was reading the local, hometown newspaper and I noticed something that had previously escaped me.

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A small-town pharmacist intrigued by the government's economic stimulus plan decided to launch his own version with $16,000 in $2 bills, and area stores have already felt the impact. Danny Cottrell gave each of his full-time employees $700 and part-timers $300.

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An anonymous letter threatening a City Council candidate to get out of the race "or else" came in the mail on Thursday. The letter was printed in red type. Jim Murphy, one of the six candidates vying for Joe Rivero's empty seat in the June 2 special election, received the letter.

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An interesting, well-developed article on the the politics and political implications of the "American Small Town" and how it is perceived in urban outlets.

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Rumors, Gossip, and the Truth

Recently I had the honor of reading Ron C. Baker Sr's Rumors: The Ugly Side of Small Towns and Smaller Minds, in which he details his unfortunate and ugly experience of being a victim of a vicious rumor in his small town.

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Rumors: The Ugly Side of Small Towns...And Smaller Minds

I have a problem. Actually, it is people who live in my home town who have the problem, but have decided to inflict their problem, and themselves on me. The problem they have, and i am guessing, is the lack of a human soul.

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"Repopulating villages through love" - that is the ambitious task an insurance salesman from Madrid has set himself.

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The mooning was an act of protest. Recorded in all its glory last fall, it was transmitted onto the television screen in Judy Trebesch's office at City Hall.

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