With the PBS NewsHour, in Greenville, SC
by James Fallows
This post calls readers’ attention to a recent segment the PBS NewsHour did [see here: http://player.pbs.org/viralplayer/2365684930] on the American Futures reporting series of James and Deborah Fallows, including some footage from Greenville, SC, and from the Fallows home in Washington, DC.
A Public Library Tells the Civic Story of a Town
by Deborah Fallows
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Greenville’s public library puts its past and present on full display: mills, racial history, internationalism, public-private collaborations, and culture.
Read it here.
Tech Meets Art in Middle School
by Deborah Fallows
A South Carolina public school gives tech-savvy students a sense of humanity. (Read it here.)
‘Where Do You Go to Church?’ The Video and Mapping Versions
by James Fallows
More ways of taking the measure of this vast country. (Read it here.)
The Vermont Lake Monsters, and Other Updates From the Road
by James Fallows
Are people in smaller towns “nicer” than cosmopolitans? No. But their political structures are working better. (Read it here.)
Greenville, Burlington, and American Futures
by James Fallows
“I loathed it with the heat of a thousand million suns.” (Read it here.)
What My School Means to Me: Essays from 3 High Schoolers
by Deborah Fallows
How students at an unusual school think—and write—about their experience. (Read it here.)
The Parks and Recreation Theory of America’s Future
by James Fallows
What we discuss at the national level has surprisingly little to do with startup decisions. Some provocative data about where America is growing, and why. (Read it here.)
Dreaming Big in South Carolina: A Public Boarding School for the Arts 
by Deborah Fallows
“One half dream; one half plan.” That’s how one student described his life at the Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, South Carolina. (Read it here.)
Dadgum! Katy, Bar the Door! Speaking Your Mind in South Carolina
by Deborah Fallows
I went to Greenville listening for what kind of southernisms I might hear. I wasn’t disappointed: the accent is alive and well, classic words and phrases abound, and best of all, the conversations are comfortably padded with folksy, southern expressions. (Read it here.)
American Futures 