small-town
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Small-town politics is threaded throughout the series, and once every couple of episodes the girls end up at a “town meeting” where the gang decides various nonsense, like “who really is the ‘town troubadour’?”
From Slate • Apr. 14, 2025
Small-town madness: Seventy-five years ago, The New Yorker set off a literary firestorm when it published Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery.”
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2023
Small-town theaters in Germany boycotted "Age of Ultron."
From Salon • Jul. 11, 2022
Small-town hospitals do not have the capacity to deal with this flood of cases, so patients are being transferred to urban medical centers.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2021
Small-town life goes on in McPherson, with a population of about 13,000 in central Kansas.
From Washington Post