Maybe our hottest flight in 100,000 miles.

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

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

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.

Summer Reading: ourtownsflyer.substack.com/p/summer-in-ou…

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.

Back again up Downeast. Good news from Eastport, Maine. Our Towns Civic Foundation ourtownsflyer.substack.com/p/late-summer-…

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. ourtownsfoundation.org/turning-the-ti…

Taking 'Our Towns' to Ukraine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

An update on the upswing in All Things Sustainable, including a new generation of Sustainability Natives.

Our Towns on how libraries are leading the way for us all -- again.