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I sit down with people in Northeast Alabama. Business owners, mostly. I ask how they got here and write it with enough room to actually tell the story.

13 stories and counting.

Front page of The Anniston Hot Blast, February 4, 1900, the paper that became The Anniston Star

The Paper They Gave Away

The Anniston Star  ·  Anniston, Alabama

2nd Chance, Inc. logo, domestic violence services, Anniston, Alabama

Forty Years of Open Doors

2nd Chance, Inc.  ·  Anniston, Alabama

Redbird Willow Farm, 1103 Lenlock Lane, Anniston, Alabama

The Farm at the End of the Hard Thing

Michele Hornsby  ·  Anniston, Alabama

He Bought Flowers Every Week

He Bought Flowers Every Week

  ·  Anniston, Alabama

Jean Ellison in a pink Mom-To-Go apron, fist raised, outdoors in Anniston

The View from the Boat

Jean Ellison  ·  Anniston, Alabama

The Chief Ladiga Trail covered in snow, bare trees and blue sky, December 2017

Chief Ladiga, 1832

Chief Ladiga Trail  ·  Anniston to Piedmont, Alabama

Shannon Jenkins, President and CEO of United Way of East Central Alabama

"Don't Be
Afraid to
Dream"

Shannon Jenkins  ·  Anniston, Alabama

Lewis Downing leaning on the glass counter at Downing and Sons, with garden and seed products on shelves behind him

1030 Gurnee

Lewis Downing  ·  Anniston, Alabama

Samuel Sawyer at the farmers market with mushrooms and tinctures at the Aquality Farms booth

A NEW WAY OF
GROWING

Aquality Farms  ·  Anniston, Alabama

Noccalula Falls viewed from the gorge floor, Gadsden, Alabama

Where the Water Thunders

Noccalula Falls Park  ·  Gadsden, Alabama

The Freedom Riders mural on Gurnee Avenue in Anniston, Alabama, depicting a Greyhound bus with the question 'Could You Get On The Bus?' painted above it

The Burning Bus

Freedom Riders National Monument  ·  Anniston, Alabama

Hedcut portrait of April LaFollette, Executive Director of Interfaith Ministries of Calhoun County

Churches Stopped Competing

Interfaith Ministries of Calhoun County  ·  Anniston, Alabama

A child explores the lobby of the Anniston Museum of Natural History

Where Wonder Grows Wild

Anniston Museums & Gardens  ·  Anniston, Alabama

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