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8 stories
A second-generation owner in Toledo on keeping the lights on, the prices fair, and the staff paid through fifty-two consecutive years of business.
A high-school track coach in rural Mississippi rebuilt a program with twelve athletes, a borrowed van, and a stopwatch.
An engineer in Ohio sketched a fastener on a napkin in 1984. It now ships in every American-made airliner.
A mail carrier in Maine who has not missed a delivery day in four decades — and the small town that built a parade for her.
Archival footage and oral history from a Pittsburgh foundry whose steel still stands on three of America's longest spans.
When the county cut the budget, neighbors in a Kentucky town rebuilt the branch — shelf by shelf, over one summer.