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Title: What I Found in a Thousand Towns
Subtitle: A Traveling Musician's Guide to Rebuilding America's Communities - One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time
Author: Dar Williams
Narrator: Dar Williams
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-05-17
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 7 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians
Publisher's Summary:
A beloved folk singer presents an impassioned account of the fall and rise of the small American towns she cherishes.
Dubbed by The New Yorker as "one of America's very best singer-songwriters", Dar Williams has made her career not in stadiums, but touring America's small towns. She has played their venues, composed in their coffee shops, and drank in their bars. She has seen these communities struggle but has also seen them thrive in the face of postindustrial identity crises.
Here, Williams muses on why some towns flourish while others fail, examining elements from the significance of history and nature to the uniting power of public spaces and food. Drawing on her own travels and the work of urban theorists, Williams offers real solutions to rebuild declining communities.
What I Found in a Thousand Towns is more than a love letter to America's small towns, it's a deeply personal and hopeful message about the potential of America's lively and resilient communities.
Members Reviews:
She found herself.
A fine, fine book, from the crisp clarity of its style -- hardly a sentence over four lines! -- to its three-point, three-part organization, taking you from one specific town to another, coast to coast. Dar's career has not been traveling from ampitheatre to amphitheater, it's been from coffeehouse to coffeehouse - personally, I prefer the term, 'listening room,' but what can you do, usage rules, right? -- and a largepercentage of her CD sales have been, I would guess, right off the stage, out of her suitcase. Which fits what she's preaching - you don't begin with a revolution, you begin with a hill not being used yet for sledding, and you go on from there to develop community. Don't you? Have you tried? Dar Williams has, and she reports back: success, in a thousand small towns, Moab (Utah) to Phoenixville (PA), and back on the road again. It's an inspiring story, well-told, and it's clear what you should now do isn't it? Buy the book, through Amazon - easy right now, right? - or, if you follow the idea here, at a local bookstore with a small, well-sifted inventory. Your mind will thank you.
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100 towns....a huge yes
A great resource for anyone interested in community development. She also gives enough peeks into her own life to give fans a better sense of knowing.
A little bit airy fairy and wandering, but that ...
A little bit airy fairy and wandering, but that is the essence of the author's intent. It is a valuable subject, just wish it was a lot more focused.
How People Made Their Towns GREAT Again
Far Williams writes a song about America's towns and what people can do to rebuild and revitalize them from the inside.
An inspiring read with enough success stories and ideas to give anyone a myriad of ideas to rebuild, rebrand or strengthen their own community.
The Folksinger's Guide to a Better, Smarter Hometown
As a touring musician, Dar Williams has witnessed the ways certain cities have evolved over the last quarter century. Some small to medium-sized American communities emerged from the malaise of the middle 1990s stronger, smarter, and prepared to face the tech-savvy new generation, while others didnât.