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- This journey really started
back in 2011.
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We'd been living in China
for about five years
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traveling and reporting
for "The Atlantic" magazine.
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When we came back to the U.S.,
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we wanted to look at
our own country the same way.
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- We're coming back
at the end of the recession.
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America was still trying
to find its balance,
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trying to find its way back.
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We decided to go out
and see what was going on
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in small-town
or even big-town America.
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- We were looking for towns
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that had some kind of story
to tell.
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Something had happened
to them,
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often involving
some economic shock.
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- Jim put a posting
on his blog...
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- Saying, "Tell us the story
of your town."
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Within a week,
we got a thousand essays,
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people saying...
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- Not just, "Come to my town,"
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but, "Here's the story
of my town.
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"Here's the passion
of my town.
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Here's why you have to come
and visit my town."
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- "Here is why
the story of my town
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is the American story
of this era."
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- We thought there must be
something going on in America
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that so many people wanted
to talk about their hometowns.
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We had a little plane
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that we'd been flying
for about 20 years
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and thought, "This would be
a great way to go to places
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where you can only get to
easily in a small plane."
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We decided to do what
we had always done in China.
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Go out, get connected
with not what you'd find
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in the national media,
but what we would find
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in the daily lives of people
in these towns.
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- We went to these places
before the pandemic,
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but what we saw
about how towns rise and fall
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and fight to recover has a lot
to say to our world right now
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as we try to create
a new future for ourselves.
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- When people ask me
where I'm from,
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I always say
I'm from California.
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They say, "Well, where?"
and I say, "Near Los Angeles."
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They say, "Well, where?"
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I say, "Well,
from the Inland Empire."
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And that will stop 'em
because the Inland Empire
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is a place
that people don't know.
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Start driving inland
from Los Angeles
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towards Palm Springs.
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You get to the area where
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it's much flatter,
it's much hotter.
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It's sort of just the fringe
of the Mojave Desert.
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People in Los Angeles
or San Francisco would think
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that's where the hicks
of California live
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and just zoom on through
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when they see what looks like
some sun-blasted hellscape.
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I think being from here has
really shaped my self-image
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as a sense of being
from a place
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most people have either
never heard of
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or if they have heard of it,
they often look down on it.
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I knew growing up how proud
people in our town were
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of a place
everybody else thought of
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just as drive-through country
or flyover country.
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As Deb and I have gone
to other parts of the country,
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I feel as if, "Yeah,
I know what it's like
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"here in South Dakota.
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I know what it's like
here in West Virginia"--
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the same pride and awareness
of how you're seen.
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My own hometown is Redlands,
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which is near Riverside,
which is growing,
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and San Bernardino, which used
to be the economic powerhouse
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of the Inland Empire.
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But San Bernardino
was brought down
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by a long string of problems
and seriously bad luck.
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How many cities
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have had an interstate highway
literally move away from them?
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- When Jim was growing up,
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this was
Norton Air Force Base.
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At its peak,
Norton supported 12,000 jobs
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and poured a couple
of billion dollars
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into the surrounding towns.
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The base closed in '94.
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Now it's home
to a scrapyard for old planes
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that will never fly again.
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After all its losses,
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San Bernardino
declared bankruptcy in 2012.
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- I've spent most of my life
in San Bernardino.
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This place was thriving
when the base was open.
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When the base closed down,
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it put us
in an economic chokehold.
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San Bernardino
gets a black eye
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because, you know, we had
the terrorist shootings.
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There's a lot
of gang activity.
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So this is the neighborhood
that we live in.
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- This is
Project Fighting Chance.
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We have
five national champions,
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a junior Olympic
gold medalist.
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We're a safe haven.
We feed the kids.
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We have a chess club.
We have a art program.
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- Can I get a light blue?
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- We have our Guitars Not Guns
program.
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- I knew there was a catch.
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- There's always a catch, buddy.
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- They think, "Oh,
this is just a boxing gym."
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But that's far from the truth.
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We are trying to be a part
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of fixing what needs
to be fixed around here.
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- A lot
of America's citrus fruits
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come from the Inland Empire.
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The groves and packing houses
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have relied
on immigrant workers
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and been a source of jobs
for them.
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- When I grew up in Mexico,
we barely could afford shoes.
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My dad picked the family up,
we traveled to California.
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I've been in the
citrus business for 45 years.
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I started when
I was 15 years old.
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Now I am the manager
at Redlands Foothill Groves
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and probably
the biggest grower.
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The people that work here,
99% are immigrant people.
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They do go back to Mexico,
like, mainly for Christmas.
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But we have employees
that have been with us
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over 30 years, and
that's really hard to find.
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I've seen a big change
in the last two, three years.
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We used to have people
waiting in line
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to go and pick in the field.
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Right now if I need
two people by tomorrow,
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I'll be lucky to get one
if I do.
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The lack of labor
is forcing us a lot
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to look
for automatic machines.
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I know of one packing house,
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they run almost
with no people now--
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all automatic.
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- A huge amount of the stuff
we all buy
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is made in Asia,
shipped through LA,
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then brought
to the Inland Empire
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for distribution
to the rest of the country.
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Land here is flat and cheap--
perfect for warehouses.
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For San Bernardino
to get back on its feet,
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new jobs
for warehouse workers,
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delivery people,
and truckers are critical.
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But those jobs are also
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the ones most at risk
for being automated.
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- We're expecting
that the future of automation
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will attack specifically
those jobs.
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Think about
self-driving trucks...
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the levels of automation
in the warehouses,
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office, sales jobs,
restaurants--
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income inequality will worsen.
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So, if we don't manage to get
an area like San Bernardino
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back on its feet,
it will be really troublesome,
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because then all
the other areas
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will also get into
economic hardship.
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And just think
about what will happen
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if places like Minnesota
or Michigan in the winter
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see large levels
of unemployment
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and possibly
forced homelessness
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for economic reasons.
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They're not going to stay
in Michigan in January.
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They will come south
into the sun.
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- We've seen homelessness
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everywhere we've been
in the U.S.
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It's especially bad
in California.
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Volunteers in San Bernardino
take part in an annual census
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to count people
experiencing homelessness.
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It's a national program called
in the Point-in-Time Count.
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- Good morning.
all: Good morning.
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Everybody nice and warm?
Ready to hit the streets here?
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I cannot thank you enough
for what you're doing
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so we can help those people
that are out there.
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Without you counting them,
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showing us where they are,
who they are,
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we can't get the resources
to them to help them.
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- Hello.
Good morning.
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- Good morning, sir.
- Good morning, sir.
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- Be extremely careful.
You're waking somebody up.
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Maybe you're walking
into a camp.
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Just like somebody walking
into your living room,
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that's their little,
sacred area.
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- Would you mind taking
a survey with us?
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- Sure.
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- We have a film crew
from HBO here.
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Would you mind getting filmed?
- No.
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And how old are you?
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- 63.
- Okay.
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Did you sleep outdoors
last night?
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- Of course.
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I've been homeless 25 years.
- Wow.
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- I can't be indoors.
I don't know how to be indoors.
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- Do you have any income?
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- Retirement.
- Disability? Oh, retirement?
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How much per month
would you say?
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- 300.
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- I'm 60 years old.
August 21, 1958.
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- Oh, okay.
Hispanic or Latina?
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- Azteca Mexicana,
Cherokee Indian,
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San Bernardino.
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- Native American. Okay.
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Do you have a spouse or partner
who is also homeless
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and living with you?
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- No.
- No?
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- I'm by myself.
- Mm.
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Have you tested positive
for HIV?
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- No.
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- Are you experiencing
homelessness
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because you're fleeing
domestic violence?
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- No.
My mother died.
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- A new application
that we're using
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is the ArcGIS 123
created by Esri.
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We are able to send live data
right there and then.
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- And that data is broadcast
up to a cloud,
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aggregated
so we can see patterns
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and relationships
of homelessness on a map
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and on a dashboard.
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These inform government leaders
about the severity
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of what's going on
in the field.
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And the dots on maps
can be "inquiried."
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- Social services receive
that information right away
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so they are able to able
to reach out to these clients.
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- So we had someone
that was homeless for 40 years
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that we helped.
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And it took them a long time,
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but they're living
in an apartment.
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- It takes a while, yeah.
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But, you know, like,
I can't afford no place.
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- No, but we have
affordable housing.
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Is that something
that you would be open to?
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- At $300 a month?
- It's only 30% of your income.
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- Thank you very much
for your time.
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- Thank you.
Thank you for your time.
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- Here is a little goodie bag
for you.
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- Thank you, ladies. Thank you.
- Thank you for your time.
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- We're gonna leave this bag
with you, okay?
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Well, my name's Maria.
- Okay.
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Just a homeless guy.
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- Through American history,
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the idea
of getting off the farm,
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getting out
of the little village,
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going to the big city,
testing yourself,
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has been one
of the big themes.
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There's a reason why everybody
has heard about New York.
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If you can make it there,
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you can make it anywhere,
et cetera.
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It's slipped
from public awareness
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how many people in America
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feel as if they could be
performing anyplace,
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but they place
they really want to perform
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is either where
they started out
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or some other place they feel
is their responsibility.
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And they want
to be there not just because
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it has great restaurants
or great street life,
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but because they can
help create
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great street life there.
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In this town of Redlands,
where I started out,
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a lot of the virtues
of the way it is now
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is because people
who could've been anyplace
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made that decision.
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- It's not a passive activity
to be a part of a community.
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One of the things about
Redlands I fell in love with
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is how people engage.
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- Clint Brown works at Esri,
261
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which makes the app used
in the homeless count.
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Esri is
a computer mapping company
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that adds a billion dollars
a year to the local economy.
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- Why is this company here
and not in Seattle
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or San Francisco or Boston
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or Brooklyn?
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- Oh, simple answer.
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We came from Redlands.
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We find it's a much better
place to live--
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smaller towns.
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much more affordable
for our employees,
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can actually afford a home,
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a much richer culture, and
a pace of life which is human.
274
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- When the French writer
Tocqueville toured America
275
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200 years ago,
what amazed him most
276
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was that everyone seemed
to be involved in everything.
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I'm struck by that same thing
in my town of Redlands.
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I took it for granted
when I was growing up.
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I did all these sorts
of things.
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I had jobs as a newspaper boy,
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newspaper sports editor,
orange picker, mailman.
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- I'm from a Czech
immigrant family.
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I've always had a dream
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about going out
to see the rest of the world.
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It's not an unusual dream
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for people who grow up
in the Midwest
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like I did
in Vermillion, Ohio.
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First, you say Midwest
is a great place to grow up.
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On the other hand,
you really also knew
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that you needed to get out
and see the world.
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First visit to California
to see Jim's family,
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which was intimidating,
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Redlands itself was everything
294
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that I imagined California
would be and then some.
295
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- It's hard to explain what
Circus is in this community.
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I mean, you come to Redlands,
297
00:17:12,043 --> 00:17:16,543
and Redlands is known
as a circus town.
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You're driving around,
and on the side of the road,
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there's a kid riding
a unicycle.
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Circus is really important
to this community,
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because first of all,
it's a second family.
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You get in here, you meet
all these different people.
303
00:17:32,418 --> 00:17:34,210
- So how many kids have
you got in the program?
304
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- Right now
we are pushing 500.
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Um...
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- Yes.
307
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- I need everybody.
Let's do it again!
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- We like to use Circus
as social work.
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We've gotten more people in,
more ages, more families.
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We're truly
a community circus.
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We're here
to support each other
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and literally
lift each other up.
313
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- When I was a kid
in the '60s,
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Riverside, the city just down
the road from Redlands,
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wasn't the happening place
it is today.
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Riverside was just trying
to hold on as a citrus town
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and was fading
as a resort town.
318
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- We've made an emphasis
on investing in downtown.
319
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The Mission Inn,
the Fox Theater.
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There was public money
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that was put into that.
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I think it was close
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00:18:27,168 --> 00:18:28,085
to $100 million.
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Now seeing apartments,
restaurants,
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00:18:30,543 --> 00:18:33,043
retail coming back
to downtown.
326
00:18:38,085 --> 00:18:39,585
- Riverside is making itself
327
00:18:39,669 --> 00:18:41,460
into a place people want
to live.
328
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A few miles away,
329
00:18:44,543 --> 00:18:46,960
San Bernardino is trying
to do the same thing.
330
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You have to start
with young people.
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They need to feel
their hometown
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will give them a chance.
333
00:19:01,710 --> 00:19:03,960
- When you typically think
of a high-poverty community,
334
00:19:04,043 --> 00:19:06,919
you sometimes don't think
of high levels of success.
335
00:19:07,001 --> 00:19:11,794
Bridging college and career is
what this school is known for.
336
00:19:11,877 --> 00:19:13,502
- Kayley's proposing
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00:19:13,585 --> 00:19:16,085
obsessive-compulsive
personality disorder.
338
00:19:16,168 --> 00:19:18,794
- They have, like, unwanted
thoughts that cause stress...
339
00:19:18,877 --> 00:19:20,794
- Cajon High School's
graduation rates
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were among the lowest
in the state.
341
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Now they're over 90%.
342
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They have
over 50 career pathways,
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like advanced robotics
and animatronics.
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- And we know that the medical
field is always in need,
345
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so we have a very strong
medical assistance program.
346
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- Ready?
Go.
347
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One, two, three, four...
348
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- The students
in dark-blue scrubs
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love to teach what they know.
350
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They're proud of the skills
that they've learned.
351
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- We're gonna start here.
352
00:19:50,460 --> 00:19:51,543
- They can definitely
start working
353
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right out of high school
if they choose to.
354
00:19:53,752 --> 00:19:55,710
A lot of them who have gone
into the military,
355
00:19:55,794 --> 00:19:57,502
now registered nurses.
356
00:19:57,585 --> 00:19:59,126
A lot of them will go
to college.
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And I know as soon as they go
on their internships,
358
00:20:01,710 --> 00:20:02,877
all the lights
are gonna go on,
359
00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:04,126
and they're gonna really find
360
00:20:04,210 --> 00:20:05,502
that perfect position
for them,
361
00:20:05,585 --> 00:20:07,418
what they really want to do.
362
00:20:07,502 --> 00:20:10,460
- Tonight
the prosecution is confident
363
00:20:10,543 --> 00:20:12,710
that we will prove
beyond a reasonable doubt
364
00:20:12,794 --> 00:20:15,752
that the defendant is guilty,
Your Honor.
365
00:20:15,835 --> 00:20:17,377
- Over 40 years ago,
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00:20:17,460 --> 00:20:20,001
San Bernardino was named
an All-America City.
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00:20:20,085 --> 00:20:22,752
- I will be portraying
Sam Colostian.
368
00:20:22,835 --> 00:20:23,752
- Publish...
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00:20:23,835 --> 00:20:26,043
- They were recognized
for innovation
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00:20:26,126 --> 00:20:29,001
and their strong sense
of community.
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- I'll be representing
the people
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of the state of California.
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00:20:32,001 --> 00:20:34,669
- Cajon High School
gives you hope
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00:20:34,752 --> 00:20:36,835
for San Bernardino's future.
375
00:20:43,001 --> 00:20:46,543
- Most people's lives follow
the same basic arc.
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You're born, you grow up,
grow old,
377
00:20:50,835 --> 00:20:52,960
and, finally, you die.
378
00:20:53,043 --> 00:20:56,752
Some towns can have
a similar fate.
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A town left behind
by economic change
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may just die off.
381
00:21:04,168 --> 00:21:07,960
But sometimes a town
whose life was in the past
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becomes reborn.
383
00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:17,460
My view of American history
384
00:21:17,543 --> 00:21:20,043
is the country's always been
in trouble,
385
00:21:20,126 --> 00:21:22,585
and the story of any given
moment in American history
386
00:21:22,669 --> 00:21:25,794
is how the in-trouble quotient
is balancing out
387
00:21:25,877 --> 00:21:28,293
with the responding-
to-trouble-quotient.
388
00:21:28,377 --> 00:21:29,919
I'm always asking people,
389
00:21:30,001 --> 00:21:32,251
"In the long graph
of this city's history,
390
00:21:32,335 --> 00:21:34,085
"of your history, where are we?
391
00:21:34,168 --> 00:21:36,752
Is it an upslope
or a downslope?"
392
00:21:36,835 --> 00:21:38,585
- I think we look at things
really differently.
393
00:21:38,669 --> 00:21:40,168
Jim is the historian.
394
00:21:40,251 --> 00:21:41,627
I'm listening on the sidewalk
395
00:21:41,710 --> 00:21:43,960
of what's going on
at this moment.
396
00:21:44,043 --> 00:21:47,293
I find that the best parts
of getting a sense of the town
397
00:21:47,377 --> 00:21:49,001
are in the public spaces.
398
00:21:49,085 --> 00:21:51,543
The kind of small bits,
399
00:21:51,627 --> 00:21:53,460
how people relate
to each other,
400
00:21:53,543 --> 00:21:56,627
to me, are really important.
401
00:21:56,710 --> 00:21:58,293
- Five years ago,
a little more than that,
402
00:21:58,377 --> 00:21:59,794
I put an item
on "The Atlantic" site,
403
00:21:59,877 --> 00:22:03,585
saying, "Tell us the story
of your town
404
00:22:03,669 --> 00:22:05,126
and why we should go there."
405
00:22:05,210 --> 00:22:06,794
And the qualifications were,
406
00:22:06,877 --> 00:22:09,669
first, that it should be
a small-er place,
407
00:22:09,752 --> 00:22:12,293
in the sense that the media
only went there
408
00:22:12,377 --> 00:22:13,835
when there was a problem.
409
00:22:13,919 --> 00:22:15,960
You know,
when there was a shooting,
410
00:22:16,043 --> 00:22:18,502
when there was
a public-health problem.
411
00:22:18,585 --> 00:22:21,377
But there wasn't the sort
of three-dimensional portrayal
412
00:22:21,460 --> 00:22:23,168
of it as a real place.
413
00:22:23,251 --> 00:22:24,794
When we showed up
in these towns
414
00:22:24,877 --> 00:22:26,168
over the last five years,
415
00:22:26,251 --> 00:22:27,710
they had no idea
we were coming.
416
00:22:27,794 --> 00:22:28,835
They weren't putting on
417
00:22:28,919 --> 00:22:30,543
some big chamber of commerce
presentation.
418
00:22:30,627 --> 00:22:32,001
We just showed up and said,
419
00:22:32,085 --> 00:22:33,502
"We'd like to know the story
of your town."
420
00:22:33,585 --> 00:22:36,377
And so we were catching people
sort of unawares.
421
00:22:36,460 --> 00:22:39,126
- Another thing about getting
a sense of the town--
422
00:22:39,210 --> 00:22:41,960
this comes from our living
in Japan, actually.
423
00:22:42,043 --> 00:22:45,669
There are two words in
Japanese, tatemae and honne.
424
00:22:45,752 --> 00:22:48,960
And tatemae is when
425
00:22:49,043 --> 00:22:51,794
people say what they think
that you want to hear
426
00:22:51,877 --> 00:22:53,251
in a very nice way.
427
00:22:53,335 --> 00:22:56,502
And then there's the honne,
which is what they really mean.
428
00:22:56,585 --> 00:22:59,335
Going into any place
that you don't understand,
429
00:22:59,418 --> 00:23:01,335
the tatemae comes first,
430
00:23:01,418 --> 00:23:03,835
but then people
can't help themselves.
431
00:23:03,919 --> 00:23:07,919
You finally get what
the honne is after a while.
432
00:23:24,418 --> 00:23:29,669
- Every 99 minutes,
a satellite scans the Earth...
433
00:23:29,752 --> 00:23:32,585
gathering imagery and data
about the planet.
434
00:23:37,126 --> 00:23:41,460
Those pictures are beamed down
to EROS,
435
00:23:41,543 --> 00:23:44,710
a government facility outside
of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
436
00:23:58,293 --> 00:24:01,085
EROS holds
the world's largest collection
437
00:24:01,168 --> 00:24:03,210
of images
of the Earth's surface.
438
00:24:05,502 --> 00:24:06,960
- Two miles south,
439
00:24:07,043 --> 00:24:10,460
Raven Industries is also
gathering data from above.
440
00:24:16,710 --> 00:24:19,085
Raven makes balloons
for everything
441
00:24:19,168 --> 00:24:23,293
from the military
to Macy's parade.
442
00:24:23,377 --> 00:24:25,919
- Three, two, one, release.
443
00:24:37,877 --> 00:24:39,669
- You wouldn't think
in a farming community,
444
00:24:39,752 --> 00:24:42,460
they would have
high technology and aerospace.
445
00:24:42,543 --> 00:24:44,210
It's a really key aspect
446
00:24:44,293 --> 00:24:46,835
of why it's great
to live here.
447
00:24:46,919 --> 00:24:48,919
Whenever we bring people
to Sioux Falls,
448
00:24:49,001 --> 00:24:51,126
we bring 'em downtown,
and they really are surprised
449
00:24:51,210 --> 00:24:55,460
to see that here in
a small town in South Dakota
450
00:24:55,543 --> 00:24:57,043
that there's really so much
going on.
451
00:24:57,126 --> 00:25:00,335
There's a lot of life,
a lot of activities.
452
00:25:00,418 --> 00:25:01,960
- It's got the best
of both worlds.
453
00:25:02,043 --> 00:25:03,460
Small enough
you don't have traffic,
454
00:25:03,543 --> 00:25:05,168
you don't have a commute
to worry about.
455
00:25:05,251 --> 00:25:06,835
It's big enough
that got a symphony,
456
00:25:06,919 --> 00:25:08,043
we got plays coming through.
457
00:25:08,126 --> 00:25:09,669
- There are opportunities
for jobs.
458
00:25:09,752 --> 00:25:11,210
You got great bars
and restaurants.
459
00:25:11,293 --> 00:25:13,543
Since six years ago,
we went from one brewery--
460
00:25:13,627 --> 00:25:16,335
we're now gonna have 14
by the end of the year.
461
00:25:16,418 --> 00:25:19,835
- People want to be downtown.
462
00:25:19,919 --> 00:25:22,502
They want to live down here,
they want to shop down here.
463
00:25:22,585 --> 00:25:25,460
And it wasn't that way
even ten years ago.
464
00:25:31,251 --> 00:25:34,627
- In the 1980s, Sioux Falls
had a wave of growth
465
00:25:34,710 --> 00:25:39,168
when South Dakota changed
its laws on credit cards.
466
00:25:39,251 --> 00:25:42,335
Suddenly, by moving their
headquarters to South Dakota,
467
00:25:42,418 --> 00:25:46,210
banks could charge customers
much higher interest rates,
468
00:25:46,293 --> 00:25:47,877
which meant big profits
469
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,585
from people who don't pay off
their credit card each month.
470
00:25:51,669 --> 00:25:54,669
Companies like Citibank
and Wells Fargo moved here,
471
00:25:54,752 --> 00:25:57,085
creating thousands of jobs.
472
00:26:03,335 --> 00:26:07,085
In Sioux Falls,
right by the iconic falls,
473
00:26:07,168 --> 00:26:08,710
is the meatpacking plant,
474
00:26:08,794 --> 00:26:12,835
where around 18,000 hogs a day
are slaughtered.
475
00:26:12,919 --> 00:26:16,960
When the pandemic hit,
this was a COVID hotspot.
476
00:26:18,585 --> 00:26:21,043
The jobs are
physically demanding
477
00:26:21,126 --> 00:26:22,543
and are often done
by immigrants
478
00:26:22,627 --> 00:26:24,126
with limited English.
479
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,460
- Sioux Falls
has long relied on refugees
480
00:26:28,543 --> 00:26:31,251
and immigrants as workers.
481
00:26:31,335 --> 00:26:32,585
Lutheran Social Services
482
00:26:32,669 --> 00:26:35,710
is the agency
that helps settle them.
483
00:26:35,794 --> 00:26:37,919
- We're kind of
the one-stop shop
484
00:26:38,001 --> 00:26:41,377
for all services for refugees
in South Dakota.
485
00:26:41,460 --> 00:26:43,919
We provide welcome on arrival,
486
00:26:44,001 --> 00:26:48,710
but we also do housing
and job placement
487
00:26:48,794 --> 00:26:52,585
and English language classes
and citizenship.
488
00:26:52,669 --> 00:26:54,126
- Technology--
489
00:26:54,210 --> 00:26:56,418
that was a new word
last week maybe.
490
00:26:56,502 --> 00:26:57,752
Technology.
491
00:26:57,835 --> 00:26:59,418
- Tablet.
- Tablet.
492
00:26:59,502 --> 00:27:01,585
- Uh-huh.
- Cell phone.
493
00:27:01,669 --> 00:27:04,418
- Okay, tablet, cell phone,
smartphone.
494
00:27:04,502 --> 00:27:05,627
What else?
495
00:27:05,710 --> 00:27:08,168
- Keyboard.
- Keyboard.
496
00:27:09,877 --> 00:27:11,752
- The majority
of our full-time staff,
497
00:27:11,835 --> 00:27:13,794
they're former refugees
themselves.
498
00:27:13,877 --> 00:27:15,543
- I'm a medical specialist.
499
00:27:15,627 --> 00:27:16,794
I help take clients
500
00:27:16,877 --> 00:27:18,126
to their doctors' appointment
501
00:27:18,210 --> 00:27:19,460
upon their arrival.
502
00:27:19,543 --> 00:27:20,627
- I came as a refugee.
503
00:27:20,710 --> 00:27:23,085
Lived here five years
and then became a citizen.
504
00:27:23,168 --> 00:27:25,126
My "childrens" are citizen.
505
00:27:25,210 --> 00:27:26,919
I'm very happy to live
in Sioux Falls
506
00:27:27,001 --> 00:27:30,627
because this is a very
nice place to raise family.
507
00:27:30,710 --> 00:27:31,960
- As you drive around,
508
00:27:32,043 --> 00:27:34,585
you'll see great diversity
in our small businesses.
509
00:27:34,669 --> 00:27:36,460
People that move in
to this community
510
00:27:36,543 --> 00:27:38,794
that start barbershops
or hair salons,
511
00:27:38,877 --> 00:27:42,543
grocery stores, restaurants.
512
00:27:42,627 --> 00:27:46,293
- I'm a refugee, I'm a Black,
513
00:27:46,377 --> 00:27:51,043
I'm originally from Somalia,
and I'm also Muslim,
514
00:27:51,126 --> 00:27:56,502
so which means I'm
a combination of four elements.
515
00:27:56,585 --> 00:27:58,335
I'm not a threat.
516
00:27:58,418 --> 00:28:00,335
- My gosh,
think of what they've overcome,
517
00:28:00,418 --> 00:28:03,126
especially refugees,
to get here.
518
00:28:03,210 --> 00:28:04,960
I don't know what we would be
519
00:28:05,043 --> 00:28:09,335
if we didn't have refugees
and immigrants in our country.
520
00:28:09,418 --> 00:28:11,126
- I wouldn't be here, for one.
521
00:28:11,210 --> 00:28:14,293
- 99% of the people living
in America
522
00:28:14,377 --> 00:28:16,460
are either immigrants
or refugees.
523
00:28:16,543 --> 00:28:19,710
The reason why America
is a great country now--
524
00:28:19,794 --> 00:28:24,710
it's because of people like me
and you and everyone.
525
00:29:00,669 --> 00:29:02,335
- When I say Sioux Falls,
South Dakota,
526
00:29:02,418 --> 00:29:04,085
people think
of Mount Rushmore.
527
00:29:04,168 --> 00:29:05,877
We are on the map
because of public art,
528
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,043
because somebody carved
these four faces
529
00:29:08,126 --> 00:29:09,877
into the side of a mountain.
530
00:29:15,377 --> 00:29:18,919
- Most of my art comes from
just observation of nature
531
00:29:19,001 --> 00:29:23,418
and the "Arc of Dreams"
is a good example of that.
532
00:29:23,502 --> 00:29:26,251
In terms of the narrative
of the "Arc of Dreams,"
533
00:29:26,335 --> 00:29:28,585
the idea is that
we have dreams
534
00:29:28,669 --> 00:29:30,752
that originate somewhere
in our consciousness
535
00:29:30,835 --> 00:29:33,710
and we can take 'em a certain
distance, but at some point,
536
00:29:33,794 --> 00:29:36,835
we have to trust ourselves
and the future.
537
00:29:36,919 --> 00:29:38,752
The synapse
between the two arcs
538
00:29:38,835 --> 00:29:41,293
represents that leap of faith.
539
00:29:44,335 --> 00:29:46,752
- Public art--it's
a significant component here
540
00:29:46,835 --> 00:29:47,960
in terms
of the quality of life,
541
00:29:48,043 --> 00:29:50,085
why people stay
and don't move away.
542
00:29:50,168 --> 00:29:51,919
And if they do move away
at a young age,
543
00:29:52,001 --> 00:29:53,085
they almost always come back
544
00:29:53,168 --> 00:29:54,960
because of the quality
of life.
545
00:30:07,627 --> 00:30:09,418
- Good evening.
I'm Angela Kennecke.
546
00:30:09,502 --> 00:30:10,460
Tonight...
547
00:30:10,543 --> 00:30:12,627
- Angela Kennecke
is a well-known reporter
548
00:30:12,710 --> 00:30:14,168
in our market.
549
00:30:14,251 --> 00:30:17,919
Her daughter died
from a fentanyl overdose
550
00:30:18,001 --> 00:30:19,960
a little over
a year and a half ago now.
551
00:30:20,043 --> 00:30:22,960
And her daughter was actually
our family's nanny
552
00:30:23,043 --> 00:30:26,794
for a couple years, and she was
a very special gal to us.
553
00:30:26,877 --> 00:30:30,960
And that really hit us hard
when that happened.
554
00:30:31,043 --> 00:30:33,835
- Nobody thinks this is going
to happen to them.
555
00:30:33,919 --> 00:30:36,418
I knew there was a problem
with my daughter.
556
00:30:36,502 --> 00:30:39,627
I didn't know
she was using heroin.
557
00:30:39,710 --> 00:30:41,960
She didn't want me to know
what she was doing
558
00:30:42,043 --> 00:30:44,377
because she was ashamed of it.
559
00:30:44,460 --> 00:30:47,710
Emily was just a brilliant kid.
560
00:30:47,794 --> 00:30:51,001
She was a gifted artist.
561
00:30:51,085 --> 00:30:53,126
- By sharing our story,
you know,
562
00:30:53,210 --> 00:30:55,085
we can help some people out.
563
00:30:55,168 --> 00:30:58,168
- If fentanyl hadn't been
in my daughter's heroin,
564
00:30:58,251 --> 00:31:00,502
she would still be alive.
565
00:31:00,585 --> 00:31:03,293
- Angela, using her platform
as a reporter,
566
00:31:03,377 --> 00:31:04,794
has really done a good job
567
00:31:04,877 --> 00:31:06,960
of trying to create
an awareness in our community
568
00:31:07,043 --> 00:31:09,043
of what the opioid challenges
569
00:31:09,126 --> 00:31:10,794
that we face
in Sioux Falls are.
570
00:31:10,877 --> 00:31:12,627
I think we're very good
at hiding those things
571
00:31:12,710 --> 00:31:14,669
and not talking
about the problems.
572
00:31:14,752 --> 00:31:17,377
- We need to replace judgment
with compassion,
573
00:31:17,460 --> 00:31:19,919
and we need to replace
punishment with treatment.
574
00:31:20,001 --> 00:31:22,210
- Angela's sharing
what she went through
575
00:31:22,293 --> 00:31:23,627
with her daughter,
576
00:31:23,710 --> 00:31:25,543
talking
about the opioid epidemic
577
00:31:25,627 --> 00:31:28,085
in the context of an illness.
578
00:31:28,168 --> 00:31:31,543
I think it's had a tremendous
impact far beyond Sioux Falls,
579
00:31:31,627 --> 00:31:33,377
probably far beyond
South Dakota.
580
00:31:48,585 --> 00:31:50,251
- South Dakota's
biggest industry
581
00:31:50,335 --> 00:31:53,543
has always been agriculture...
582
00:31:53,627 --> 00:31:56,418
but it's done by fewer
and fewer farmers.
583
00:31:58,293 --> 00:32:01,543
So the little towns
that support farm families
584
00:32:01,627 --> 00:32:02,835
often wither.
585
00:32:10,502 --> 00:32:13,251
- My dad has a number
of little quips.
586
00:32:13,335 --> 00:32:14,251
One of his sayings is,
587
00:32:14,335 --> 00:32:15,460
"Farming is a great way
of life
588
00:32:15,543 --> 00:32:17,126
as long as you don't have
to make a living at it."
589
00:32:21,293 --> 00:32:22,877
I've wanted to farm
my whole life.
590
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:24,960
That's all I ever wanted
to do.
591
00:32:27,168 --> 00:32:29,919
My dad told me and had
the foresight to know
592
00:32:30,001 --> 00:32:32,251
that our farm is fairly close
to Sioux Falls
593
00:32:32,335 --> 00:32:34,377
and may or may not be here
in the future.
594
00:32:34,460 --> 00:32:36,210
It will likely be developed
at some point in time.
595
00:32:36,293 --> 00:32:39,752
He said I had to get
a real job.
596
00:32:39,835 --> 00:32:43,085
- Karl Oehlke's real job
when he's not farming
597
00:32:43,168 --> 00:32:46,085
is as a physician's assistant
at a Avera Health.
598
00:32:46,168 --> 00:32:49,627
Knowing the stress farmers
are constantly under,
599
00:32:49,710 --> 00:32:54,001
whether from flooded fields
or low commodity prices,
600
00:32:54,085 --> 00:32:58,669
Karl helped create
the Farmer's Stress Hotline.
601
00:32:58,752 --> 00:33:00,794
- It's 24 hours a day.
It's confidential.
602
00:33:00,877 --> 00:33:02,418
Talking to me on the phone,
603
00:33:02,502 --> 00:33:04,460
I can empathize with them
and explain to them,
604
00:33:04,543 --> 00:33:06,919
"Yeah, I know exactly
what you're going through."
605
00:33:07,001 --> 00:33:09,126
The biggest thing
we're dealing with right now--
606
00:33:09,210 --> 00:33:11,293
fear, anxiety.
607
00:33:11,377 --> 00:33:12,919
"I'm working extremely hard,
608
00:33:13,001 --> 00:33:14,418
"yet I have nothing to show
for it.
609
00:33:14,502 --> 00:33:17,502
How can I keep my kids
in shoes?"
610
00:33:17,585 --> 00:33:18,752
Trying to prevent suicide,
611
00:33:18,835 --> 00:33:20,418
is, of course,
our biggest concern.
612
00:33:22,251 --> 00:33:26,377
Prototypical farmer was always
the stereotype of a very stoic,
613
00:33:26,460 --> 00:33:28,460
hardened person, you know?
614
00:33:28,543 --> 00:33:30,001
And to let their guard down
615
00:33:30,085 --> 00:33:31,835
is not something
that they're used to doing.
616
00:33:35,585 --> 00:33:38,043
I've heard so many farmers
say to me
617
00:33:38,126 --> 00:33:39,460
even by the end
of the interview
618
00:33:39,543 --> 00:33:42,502
and maybe I haven't even
offered them a medication,
619
00:33:42,585 --> 00:33:44,335
they just felt better talking.
620
00:33:44,418 --> 00:33:48,210
It's just like this sense
of calm comes over them.
621
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,543
- Our history is shaped
by migration and conflict.
622
00:34:18,585 --> 00:34:22,210
In the 19th century,
European immigrants moved west
623
00:34:22,293 --> 00:34:24,377
into the homelands
of the Dakota Sioux
624
00:34:24,460 --> 00:34:27,543
in the central U.S.
and Canada.
625
00:34:27,627 --> 00:34:29,752
After a series
of broken treaties,
626
00:34:29,835 --> 00:34:31,752
wars, and public hangings,
627
00:34:31,835 --> 00:34:34,710
the Dakota were driven out
by the U.S. government
628
00:34:34,794 --> 00:34:37,752
and scattered
to small reservations.
629
00:34:37,835 --> 00:34:39,877
The Flandreau Santee Sioux
630
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,752
settled on land
near Sioux Falls.
631
00:34:46,794 --> 00:34:48,752
- Where we're located here
in Flandreau,
632
00:34:48,835 --> 00:34:50,377
we were two to three hours
633
00:34:50,460 --> 00:34:53,251
from all other
Dakota communities,
634
00:34:53,335 --> 00:34:55,418
so we all stay in touch.
635
00:34:55,502 --> 00:34:57,293
- Anywhere we go,
we're Dakota.
636
00:34:57,377 --> 00:35:00,085
Don't matter if we're in DC
or we're in China
637
00:35:00,168 --> 00:35:01,585
or we're here in the homelands.
638
00:35:01,669 --> 00:35:04,126
We'll be Dakota.
639
00:35:04,210 --> 00:35:06,251
- How many here?
300 and some here on rez?
640
00:35:06,335 --> 00:35:08,251
- Yeah.
Close to it, yeah.
641
00:35:08,335 --> 00:35:12,460
- And total, 500, 600?
- About 600, 700.
642
00:35:12,543 --> 00:35:14,585
- There was a thing called
Indian Court of Offenses
643
00:35:14,669 --> 00:35:16,251
back in the day.
644
00:35:16,335 --> 00:35:19,251
We weren't even allowed
to gather like this.
645
00:35:19,335 --> 00:35:20,919
"Kill the Indian,
save the man."
646
00:35:21,001 --> 00:35:22,960
The boarding-school era.
647
00:35:23,043 --> 00:35:25,960
Started cutting our hair,
putting us in little suits,
648
00:35:26,043 --> 00:35:27,960
putting us in boarding schools.
649
00:35:28,043 --> 00:35:31,919
To speak to culture,
the language,
650
00:35:32,001 --> 00:35:33,835
you were punished.
651
00:35:33,919 --> 00:35:36,669
And then the freedom
of religion was, like, in 1978.
652
00:35:36,752 --> 00:35:38,001
That's not that long ago.
653
00:35:38,085 --> 00:35:40,627
So his grandpa, my dad,
654
00:35:40,710 --> 00:35:43,794
they were both fluent speakers,
but...
655
00:35:43,877 --> 00:35:46,168
sometimes it was hard
for them to speak
656
00:35:46,251 --> 00:35:47,877
just because of that era.
657
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:49,752
- My older relatives,
grandparents and whatnot,
658
00:35:49,835 --> 00:35:53,502
they were forced off the
reservation to find employment,
659
00:35:53,585 --> 00:35:55,835
to make better lives,
if you will,
660
00:35:55,919 --> 00:35:57,835
in the eyes of
the United States government.
661
00:35:57,919 --> 00:36:00,960
- Growing up in Minneapolis,
662
00:36:01,043 --> 00:36:04,085
we just knew we were Indian.
663
00:36:04,168 --> 00:36:06,835
We knew that we went
to the little Indian programs,
664
00:36:06,919 --> 00:36:09,669
and that was about it.
665
00:36:09,752 --> 00:36:14,001
I had no idea of the history
that I was born in
666
00:36:14,085 --> 00:36:15,126
from the land.
667
00:36:19,585 --> 00:36:21,960
- The Royal River Casino
opened in 1990.
668
00:36:22,043 --> 00:36:24,001
The tribe runs it.
669
00:36:24,085 --> 00:36:25,877
At that time,
we were the only show in town.
670
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:27,126
- Awesome.
- All right.
671
00:36:29,251 --> 00:36:32,126
- The casino itself
is a huge economic engine,
672
00:36:32,210 --> 00:36:34,669
not only for Flandreau,
but the surrounding areas.
673
00:36:34,752 --> 00:36:38,335
The impact,
it multiplies everywhere else.
674
00:36:38,418 --> 00:36:40,001
- Brought a lot
of the economy back,
675
00:36:40,085 --> 00:36:42,293
and it brought a lot
of people back, too.
676
00:36:42,377 --> 00:36:43,835
- Come on, come on.
677
00:36:43,919 --> 00:36:46,168
- And it provides
for social programs,
678
00:36:46,251 --> 00:36:47,669
everything
that the tribe needs--
679
00:36:47,752 --> 00:36:49,001
government services.
680
00:36:49,085 --> 00:36:51,001
You can say it helped
springboard us
681
00:36:51,085 --> 00:36:53,210
into the revitalization
of the language program.
682
00:36:53,293 --> 00:36:56,126
- How many people speak Dakota?
683
00:36:56,210 --> 00:37:00,377
- Well, I can speak
for just this community.
684
00:37:00,460 --> 00:37:02,043
Maybe three.
685
00:37:02,126 --> 00:37:04,585
The tribe here made the effort
686
00:37:04,669 --> 00:37:08,085
to push for
a language-immersion class.
687
00:37:09,919 --> 00:37:12,543
Who are we
if we don't have our language?
688
00:37:44,335 --> 00:37:46,919
- Powwows--it's not just
for one tribe.
689
00:37:47,001 --> 00:37:48,710
It's many tribes.
690
00:37:48,794 --> 00:37:50,460
We may not all speak
the same language,
691
00:37:50,543 --> 00:37:52,251
but we all come together.
692
00:37:55,043 --> 00:37:59,085
I'm Santee Dakota.
Ho-Chunk and Meskwaki.
693
00:37:59,168 --> 00:38:00,418
As Native Americans,
694
00:38:00,502 --> 00:38:03,794
I think it's real important
to have that cultural identity
695
00:38:03,877 --> 00:38:07,418
for dancing and beadwork
and crafts and leatherwork.
696
00:38:07,502 --> 00:38:09,752
I tell my kids, I said,
"You guys have to learn this,
697
00:38:09,835 --> 00:38:12,794
because when I'm gone,
there's not gonna be anybody."
698
00:38:19,168 --> 00:38:21,585
A lot of Natives have never
been exposed to culture,
699
00:38:21,669 --> 00:38:23,001
you know, like this.
700
00:38:23,085 --> 00:38:24,919
And if we can get more people
701
00:38:25,001 --> 00:38:26,585
to be courageous
and get out there
702
00:38:26,669 --> 00:38:28,585
in the center
and dance with us...
703
00:38:28,669 --> 00:38:30,251
Just listen to the music,
704
00:38:30,335 --> 00:38:32,335
and you'll get the rhythm
and you'll go.
705
00:38:38,752 --> 00:38:41,960
- Last night at the Wacipi,
there's a little girl,
706
00:38:42,043 --> 00:38:43,794
and she looked at me,
and she said...
707
00:38:45,377 --> 00:38:46,585
That was saying hello.
708
00:38:46,669 --> 00:38:48,251
And then all the other little
girls around them
709
00:38:48,335 --> 00:38:50,627
were saying... .
"Hello, hello."
710
00:38:50,710 --> 00:38:55,460
It gets emotional to just hear
them speak their language.
711
00:38:57,502 --> 00:39:00,543
- It's saving our life.
It's saving our kids.
712
00:39:00,627 --> 00:39:03,710
It's giving a chance,
a future...
713
00:39:03,794 --> 00:39:06,669
for us to continue.
714
00:39:27,126 --> 00:39:29,877
- The dark chapters
in American history
715
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,335
are still unfolding
in life today.
716
00:39:35,752 --> 00:39:39,001
In our travels, we've been
struck by how differently
717
00:39:39,085 --> 00:39:41,418
different communities
approach their past...
718
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,752
And which parts of it they
embrace and which they avoid.
719
00:39:49,794 --> 00:39:53,377
Columbus, Mississippi, is
on the geological Black Belt,
720
00:39:53,460 --> 00:39:56,919
a band of fertile soil
dating back millions of years.
721
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,585
The soil made it a good place
for plantations.
722
00:40:06,460 --> 00:40:10,835
In Columbus, antebellum
mansions are reminders
723
00:40:10,919 --> 00:40:12,919
of life
during the Confederacy.
724
00:40:17,126 --> 00:40:21,085
The markers in
Friendship Cemetery are, too.
725
00:40:26,835 --> 00:40:28,418
After slavery ended,
726
00:40:28,502 --> 00:40:30,752
Jim Crow laws
and civil rights abuses
727
00:40:30,835 --> 00:40:33,377
into the 20th century
and beyond
728
00:40:33,460 --> 00:40:36,919
are things to be reckoned with
across the country.
729
00:40:46,001 --> 00:40:49,877
Sandfield is Columbus'
historic Black cemetery.
730
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:54,085
- Today we are so elated
to stand here and tell you
731
00:40:54,168 --> 00:40:57,752
that we have a marker
for Sandfield Cemetery.
732
00:40:57,835 --> 00:41:01,126
Established before
the Civil War,
733
00:41:01,210 --> 00:41:03,794
among people buried here
are Robert Gleed,
734
00:41:03,877 --> 00:41:07,460
a former slave who served
in the state senate.
735
00:41:07,543 --> 00:41:12,168
Reflect back, lest we forget
our history and our heritage.
736
00:41:12,251 --> 00:41:16,418
all:
737
00:41:27,085 --> 00:41:30,502
- We're here today because
on the 8th of May in 1865,
738
00:41:30,585 --> 00:41:32,293
Union troops arrived
in Columbus.
739
00:41:32,377 --> 00:41:35,502
That is effectively
when enslavement ended.
740
00:41:35,585 --> 00:41:37,293
- Chuck Yarborough teaches
741
00:41:37,377 --> 00:41:40,502
at the Mississippi School
for Mathematics & Science.
742
00:41:40,585 --> 00:41:42,627
It's a public high school,
and every year
743
00:41:42,710 --> 00:41:46,543
they explore the town's
history at the public library.
744
00:41:46,627 --> 00:41:49,502
- He says in the diary,
745
00:41:49,585 --> 00:41:51,502
Dr. Wilson received
a threatening letter
746
00:41:51,585 --> 00:41:53,043
to the school today.
747
00:41:53,126 --> 00:41:55,001
- "If you don't leave,
we will hang you."
748
00:41:55,085 --> 00:41:56,043
- We gonna get the rope
749
00:41:56,126 --> 00:41:57,502
and then we're gonna hang you
with the rope.
750
00:41:57,585 --> 00:41:58,502
- Yeah.
- Like...
751
00:41:58,585 --> 00:42:00,210
- There's some specificity
to that
752
00:42:00,293 --> 00:42:03,168
that's even more
ominous feeling, right? Okay.
753
00:42:03,251 --> 00:42:04,669
- So the first thing
that you'll notice that--
754
00:42:04,752 --> 00:42:05,919
- In the archives,
755
00:42:06,001 --> 00:42:09,669
students learn about life
in Columbus 150 years ago.
756
00:42:09,752 --> 00:42:11,377
- But even right here,
757
00:42:11,460 --> 00:42:15,168
you can find
"one Negro woman named Milly."
758
00:42:15,251 --> 00:42:16,669
- Finding the Milly
that was associated
759
00:42:16,752 --> 00:42:19,001
with this court case
is a whole nother thing.
760
00:42:19,085 --> 00:42:21,960
- Then they write scripts
to perform in the cemetery
761
00:42:22,043 --> 00:42:23,627
on Emancipation Day.
762
00:42:23,710 --> 00:42:27,669
- Good afternoon,
good people of Columbus,
763
00:42:27,752 --> 00:42:29,543
although my experience ought
to have taught me
764
00:42:29,627 --> 00:42:32,877
that the people of Columbus
aren't always so good.
765
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,377
- The next document
we're going to look at--
766
00:42:35,460 --> 00:42:39,377
page one and two
of the newspapers.
767
00:42:39,460 --> 00:42:41,085
It says,
"Columbus, Mississippi,
768
00:42:41,168 --> 00:42:43,543
November 3, 1875."
769
00:42:43,627 --> 00:42:45,168
- "Under these instructions,
770
00:42:45,251 --> 00:42:47,418
"a number of Negroes
were arrested
771
00:42:47,502 --> 00:42:50,251
"and turned over
to the proper police officers.
772
00:42:50,335 --> 00:42:53,085
"I regret to state
that the following Negroes
773
00:42:53,168 --> 00:42:54,543
were shot and killed."
774
00:42:54,627 --> 00:42:56,919
- And as we move
through downtown,
775
00:42:57,001 --> 00:43:00,043
a mob led
by Jacob Hunter Sharp
776
00:43:00,126 --> 00:43:01,710
attacked us.
777
00:43:01,794 --> 00:43:03,543
They shot into our group,
778
00:43:03,627 --> 00:43:07,502
killing four innocent Black men
and wounding three others.
779
00:43:07,585 --> 00:43:09,710
- Makes them way more brave
in my eyes
780
00:43:09,794 --> 00:43:12,418
because, like,
they're actively, like,
781
00:43:12,502 --> 00:43:13,418
threatening to kill them
782
00:43:13,502 --> 00:43:15,210
and telling them
how they're gonna do it.
783
00:43:15,293 --> 00:43:17,752
- The ex-Confederates didn't
stop with the rumor, though.
784
00:43:17,835 --> 00:43:19,877
We received a letter
threatening death
785
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:22,418
if we continued to educate
the freed people.
786
00:43:22,502 --> 00:43:23,543
- I think this actually shows
787
00:43:23,627 --> 00:43:25,043
that the people
who threatened them
788
00:43:25,126 --> 00:43:28,251
understood the importance
of education
789
00:43:28,335 --> 00:43:29,710
and how it could
be problematic
790
00:43:29,794 --> 00:43:31,585
if people knew
how to read and how to write.
791
00:43:31,669 --> 00:43:33,293
Taking away the education
792
00:43:33,377 --> 00:43:35,418
keeps the community
in a submissive position,
793
00:43:35,502 --> 00:43:37,585
and they would do that
by any means necessary.
794
00:43:37,669 --> 00:43:39,585
- I feel like my story
795
00:43:39,669 --> 00:43:41,794
is just the ultimate
American success story.
796
00:43:41,877 --> 00:43:45,752
I am the son of a man
and a woman who were enslaved.
797
00:43:45,835 --> 00:43:48,877
But my father bought his
freedom before the Civil War.
798
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:51,126
- Some of you
mistakenly believe
799
00:43:51,210 --> 00:43:54,168
that only men helped establish
this community,
800
00:43:54,251 --> 00:43:57,627
but let me let y'all in
on a little secret.
801
00:43:57,710 --> 00:43:59,919
Behind every strong man,
802
00:44:00,001 --> 00:44:02,919
there is an equally
if not stronger woman.
803
00:44:05,377 --> 00:44:08,126
- I'm Mississippi State Senator
Robert Gleed,
804
00:44:08,210 --> 00:44:09,835
a notable business owner
and political leader
805
00:44:09,919 --> 00:44:11,794
in Columbus and Lowndes County.
806
00:44:11,877 --> 00:44:13,627
Now, I used to tell
my children,
807
00:44:13,710 --> 00:44:16,960
"We all stand on the shoulders
of someone who came before us."
808
00:44:17,043 --> 00:44:18,794
We had our setbacks
as a country
809
00:44:18,877 --> 00:44:20,335
and as a people in our day,
810
00:44:20,418 --> 00:44:23,752
but it's clear
that progress has been made.
811
00:44:23,835 --> 00:44:26,460
And I like to think
that you folks can reach higher
812
00:44:26,543 --> 00:44:28,293
even when times are tough,
813
00:44:28,377 --> 00:44:29,669
'cause those many years ago,
814
00:44:29,752 --> 00:44:33,085
I offered my shoulders
for you to stand on,
815
00:44:33,168 --> 00:44:36,210
and I hope you'll do the same
for those that follow you.
816
00:44:49,210 --> 00:44:51,168
- When I moved here
from New York,
817
00:44:51,251 --> 00:44:54,043
I experienced a little racism.
818
00:44:54,126 --> 00:44:57,001
You know,
I was managing this hotel,
819
00:44:57,085 --> 00:44:59,502
and some guests
did not understand
820
00:44:59,585 --> 00:45:03,251
that I was the manager,
that it wasn't anyone above me.
821
00:45:03,335 --> 00:45:04,960
But as the town began to grow
822
00:45:05,043 --> 00:45:07,293
and I began to meet
more people,
823
00:45:07,377 --> 00:45:11,669
there's more of an acceptance
of African American people
824
00:45:11,752 --> 00:45:13,210
getting
in leadership position,
825
00:45:13,293 --> 00:45:14,710
management position.
826
00:45:14,794 --> 00:45:19,543
It takes some getting used to,
and it's not all of the South.
827
00:45:19,627 --> 00:45:24,043
The younger generation is
very accepting of diversity.
828
00:45:24,126 --> 00:45:26,877
They are making that change.
829
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:28,210
The past is the past,
830
00:45:28,293 --> 00:45:31,543
and Mississippi is striving
for change.
831
00:45:48,752 --> 00:45:50,877
- Factories around Columbus
used to make things
832
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:55,335
like blue jeans, hot dogs,
pork chops, and toilet seats.
833
00:45:55,418 --> 00:46:00,126
Those industries disappeared,
leaving 20% unemployment
834
00:46:00,210 --> 00:46:03,085
in the poorest state
in the country.
835
00:46:03,168 --> 00:46:05,418
Getting out of that kind
of depression
836
00:46:05,502 --> 00:46:06,877
doesn't just happen.
837
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:08,502
It takes community action.
838
00:46:10,669 --> 00:46:11,794
The region around Columbus
839
00:46:11,877 --> 00:46:14,585
started a development agency
called LINK
840
00:46:14,669 --> 00:46:17,752
that's brought in lots
of high-tech manufacturers.
841
00:46:17,835 --> 00:46:20,794
- If it can be done here,
it can be done anywhere.
842
00:46:20,877 --> 00:46:22,877
- Convincing companies
to move here
843
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:26,043
is the job of Joe Max Higgins
and Brenda Latham.
844
00:46:26,126 --> 00:46:28,043
- And we've built
a new industrial park
845
00:46:28,126 --> 00:46:29,585
and are in the process
846
00:46:29,669 --> 00:46:32,210
of doing a new industrial park
in Starkville.
847
00:46:32,293 --> 00:46:35,085
- We found a niche
in advanced manufacturing.
848
00:46:35,168 --> 00:46:37,585
We acquire property.
We install infrastructure.
849
00:46:37,669 --> 00:46:38,752
We locate companies.
850
00:46:38,835 --> 00:46:40,460
And if it all works out well,
851
00:46:40,543 --> 00:46:43,001
we get that company in, and
we get 'em going and running.
852
00:46:43,085 --> 00:46:45,126
Then we go and we do
another one and another one.
853
00:46:45,210 --> 00:46:46,835
But first thing we got to do
a lot of times
854
00:46:46,919 --> 00:46:50,835
is just put aside issues
or concerns or beliefs
855
00:46:50,919 --> 00:46:52,627
that may not be true.
856
00:46:52,710 --> 00:46:54,627
You know, people tell us
we're last in everything good.
857
00:46:55,710 --> 00:46:57,293
- Well, I mean,
that's the rap we have,
858
00:46:57,377 --> 00:47:00,460
whether it's true or not--
we're last in everything good.
859
00:47:00,543 --> 00:47:03,251
- Mississippi was
the last state to still have
860
00:47:03,335 --> 00:47:06,669
the Confederate stars and bars
on its state flag.
861
00:47:09,543 --> 00:47:12,502
- Columbus has a foot
in antebellum
862
00:47:12,585 --> 00:47:13,960
and a foot in the future.
863
00:47:14,043 --> 00:47:16,543
Some days
they almost feel confused.
864
00:47:16,627 --> 00:47:18,293
And when I got here, I said,
865
00:47:18,377 --> 00:47:20,502
"Before I take this job,
answer a question for me.
866
00:47:20,585 --> 00:47:21,835
"Are you a community
867
00:47:21,919 --> 00:47:24,460
that values your past
more than your future?"
868
00:47:24,543 --> 00:47:26,460
They said, "Oh, no."
869
00:47:26,543 --> 00:47:28,293
Now, look,
I understand heritage,
870
00:47:28,377 --> 00:47:29,669
and I understand culture,
871
00:47:29,752 --> 00:47:32,710
but if you may offend somebody
that might want to invest here
872
00:47:32,794 --> 00:47:36,210
and create jobs here,
why would you do that?
873
00:47:47,752 --> 00:47:50,877
- It's a real shock when
traditional jobs disappear...
874
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:54,126
- The future will be working
alongside the robots.
875
00:47:54,210 --> 00:47:56,001
- And the new ones call
for skills
876
00:47:56,085 --> 00:47:58,126
that local people don't have.
877
00:47:58,210 --> 00:48:00,335
As we've seen
around the country,
878
00:48:00,418 --> 00:48:02,710
community colleges
are incredibly important
879
00:48:02,794 --> 00:48:05,502
in preparing students
for new jobs
880
00:48:05,585 --> 00:48:09,877
and, in the bigger picture,
fighting inequality.
881
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:13,960
This is the Communiversity
near Columbus, Mississippi.
882
00:48:16,210 --> 00:48:18,377
- This is highly technical.
883
00:48:18,460 --> 00:48:20,377
It is not the old shop.
884
00:48:20,460 --> 00:48:23,377
The old vocational school
was sometimes
885
00:48:23,460 --> 00:48:26,210
a penalty a person paid.
886
00:48:26,293 --> 00:48:28,377
- Press at every station.
887
00:48:28,460 --> 00:48:30,043
- We are second chances
888
00:48:30,126 --> 00:48:33,502
for people to get
that high-school equivalency,
889
00:48:33,585 --> 00:48:35,543
to get a job.
890
00:48:35,627 --> 00:48:37,919
Many individuals
in our community
891
00:48:38,001 --> 00:48:42,418
are one flat tire away
from losing their job
892
00:48:42,502 --> 00:48:45,126
or not finishing
their education.
893
00:48:45,210 --> 00:48:49,460
We help bring partners
to removing those barriers.
894
00:48:49,543 --> 00:48:53,752
We lift up the community
as a whole.
895
00:48:53,835 --> 00:48:57,960
- That's the best description
of community college
896
00:48:58,043 --> 00:49:01,126
and what you do
that I've heard anywhere.
897
00:49:01,210 --> 00:49:03,877
- If it can happen here
898
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,710
in the poorest of all states,
899
00:49:06,794 --> 00:49:09,919
then surely the positive things
900
00:49:10,001 --> 00:49:12,251
are replicable elsewhere.
901
00:49:20,502 --> 00:49:21,627
- You go into this business
902
00:49:21,710 --> 00:49:23,251
because you love
this business,
903
00:49:23,335 --> 00:49:25,126
because it is
the most interesting way
904
00:49:25,210 --> 00:49:28,126
you can possibly spend
your life.
905
00:49:28,210 --> 00:49:31,585
An unexpected truth about
most people who are reporters,
906
00:49:31,669 --> 00:49:32,794
including me,
907
00:49:32,877 --> 00:49:35,919
almost all
professional reporters
908
00:49:36,001 --> 00:49:39,210
are psychologically introverts
and shy.
909
00:49:39,293 --> 00:49:43,794
And so you are looking
for a structural excuse
910
00:49:43,877 --> 00:49:45,960
to go out in the world,
meet people,
911
00:49:46,043 --> 00:49:47,251
and ask them about things.
912
00:49:47,335 --> 00:49:50,126
If I'm just on the street,
I'm not gonna talk to anybody.
913
00:49:50,210 --> 00:49:52,293
But if I'm on the street
as a reporter,
914
00:49:52,377 --> 00:49:54,126
I'm gonna talk to everybody.
915
00:49:54,210 --> 00:49:57,126
I have a license to say,
"Tell me your story.
916
00:49:57,210 --> 00:49:59,794
Tell me your hopes.
Tell me what I don't know."
917
00:49:59,877 --> 00:50:03,502
There's this secret power
that being a journalist gives
918
00:50:03,585 --> 00:50:06,502
to almost everybody I know
in this business.
919
00:50:14,919 --> 00:50:17,627
- At the far eastern tip
of the United States
920
00:50:17,710 --> 00:50:21,168
is the tiny town
of Eastport, Maine.
921
00:50:21,251 --> 00:50:24,335
- When we very first came here
in 2013, I did an article.
922
00:50:24,418 --> 00:50:28,335
Its headline was,
"The Little Town That Might."
923
00:50:28,418 --> 00:50:30,877
The conclusion was,
"Will Eastport make it?
924
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:32,669
I don't know."
925
00:50:32,752 --> 00:50:36,502
Eastport has the deepest port
on the East Coast.
926
00:50:36,585 --> 00:50:39,168
On the other hand,
it's so far away.
927
00:50:42,251 --> 00:50:44,502
- There are just
not many people--
928
00:50:44,585 --> 00:50:46,210
1,300 people
929
00:50:46,293 --> 00:50:48,210
in a town that used to have
about 10,000
930
00:50:48,293 --> 00:50:51,210
in its heyday
of sardine fishing.
931
00:50:51,293 --> 00:50:54,585
The town has had
so many surprising disasters
932
00:50:54,669 --> 00:50:56,043
come their way.
933
00:50:56,126 --> 00:50:59,043
Everything on Main Street
burned down in 1887
934
00:50:59,126 --> 00:51:01,085
or just before,
and they had to rebuild
935
00:51:01,168 --> 00:51:03,251
the entire main street
of the town,
936
00:51:03,335 --> 00:51:06,168
which they have
in a beautiful fashion.
937
00:51:13,460 --> 00:51:14,794
- That was a sardine place.
938
00:51:14,877 --> 00:51:16,877
That was the last one in this
area, wasn't it, Dickie?
939
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:18,919
- It was '83
I started working there.
940
00:51:19,001 --> 00:51:20,710
And I got laid off
'cause there was no fish,
941
00:51:20,794 --> 00:51:22,043
so I went blueberry raking.
942
00:51:22,126 --> 00:51:23,919
Happiest phone call I ever got.
Said, "We got fish."
943
00:51:24,001 --> 00:51:27,251
I said, "I'll be back."
944
00:51:27,335 --> 00:51:30,085
Man, that clam digging.
Nope.
945
00:51:31,335 --> 00:51:32,752
- You have to love
living here.
946
00:51:32,835 --> 00:51:33,919
If you don't love living here,
947
00:51:34,001 --> 00:51:36,585
you wouldn't put the work in
that it requires.
948
00:51:36,669 --> 00:51:39,460
People are doing one, two,
three different things.
949
00:51:39,543 --> 00:51:41,919
I'm the executive director
of the Port Authority.
950
00:51:42,001 --> 00:51:44,627
I'm also a reserve police
officer here in town.
951
00:51:44,710 --> 00:51:46,710
I'm the chairman
of the county commissioners.
952
00:51:46,794 --> 00:51:49,085
I coach soccer
at a local high school.
953
00:51:49,168 --> 00:51:50,919
And--oh, and my wife and I,
954
00:51:51,001 --> 00:51:53,794
we flip real estate on the side
in our spare time.
955
00:51:53,877 --> 00:51:57,585
That's the commitment that
you have to put in to be here.
956
00:51:57,669 --> 00:51:59,794
It is a different type
of person.
957
00:51:59,877 --> 00:52:01,085
"Resourceful" is probably
958
00:52:01,168 --> 00:52:02,919
the best word
that I can come up with.
959
00:52:08,794 --> 00:52:10,460
- I'd say there's
kind of two Eastports.
960
00:52:10,543 --> 00:52:12,001
Right now we're
in the colored Eastport.
961
00:52:12,085 --> 00:52:13,794
It's summertime, and there's
a lot of people around.
962
00:52:13,877 --> 00:52:16,627
There's things
constantly happening.
963
00:52:16,710 --> 00:52:20,335
And then there's sepia-toned
Eastport in the wintertime,
964
00:52:20,418 --> 00:52:22,710
where everything
kind of calms down.
965
00:52:22,794 --> 00:52:24,126
A lot of the colors go away,
966
00:52:24,210 --> 00:52:29,168
but it's also a cleanse
spiritually and for your mind.
967
00:52:34,543 --> 00:52:36,960
I'm 17, I'm a senior
at Shead High School,
968
00:52:37,043 --> 00:52:39,460
and I also take
online college classes
969
00:52:39,543 --> 00:52:41,835
with the UMaine system.
970
00:52:41,919 --> 00:52:44,335
And I'll going on to either go
to Maine Maritime
971
00:52:44,418 --> 00:52:46,335
for marine transportations
and operations,
972
00:52:46,418 --> 00:52:48,669
or I'll be headed off
to a trade school.
973
00:52:53,251 --> 00:52:55,001
I moved to Eastport
seven, eight years ago
974
00:52:55,085 --> 00:52:56,710
with my parents
from the Jersey Shore.
975
00:52:56,794 --> 00:52:59,210
I've kind of seen
how city life is.
976
00:52:59,293 --> 00:53:01,293
I much prefer this.
977
00:53:01,377 --> 00:53:04,168
It's summertime right now.
Primarily, I'm a lobsterman.
978
00:53:04,251 --> 00:53:06,669
Spend most of my day in this
fishing aspect of Eastport,
979
00:53:06,752 --> 00:53:08,001
which is one life,
980
00:53:08,085 --> 00:53:09,835
but then I'll go home,
and I'll shower,
981
00:53:09,919 --> 00:53:12,168
and I go out to the arts center
to a gallery opening
982
00:53:12,251 --> 00:53:14,418
or a gig
or a classical concert.
983
00:53:21,669 --> 00:53:22,835
With climate change and all,
984
00:53:22,919 --> 00:53:24,210
I'm not really expecting
to fish
985
00:53:24,293 --> 00:53:26,001
for more than 15 years
lobstering.
986
00:53:26,085 --> 00:53:28,210
I think it's gonna move north.
987
00:53:28,293 --> 00:53:30,001
I think we're gonna have
more opportunities
988
00:53:30,085 --> 00:53:31,460
for the oysters and mussels,
989
00:53:31,543 --> 00:53:33,168
and I'd like to take my
lobstering money and put that
990
00:53:33,251 --> 00:53:35,043
into a sustainable
aquaculture business,
991
00:53:35,126 --> 00:53:36,710
employing a lot
of local people,
992
00:53:36,794 --> 00:53:39,335
but I think lobstering's gonna
go away.
993
00:54:09,168 --> 00:54:12,502
- In 2003, a group called
The Women of the Commons
994
00:54:12,585 --> 00:54:15,293
renovated a run-down building
down the waterfront,
995
00:54:15,377 --> 00:54:19,126
making a shop and gallery
space for local artists.
996
00:54:19,210 --> 00:54:21,752
- 2003, there were a lot
of boarded-up buildings.
997
00:54:21,835 --> 00:54:25,251
They were a new kind of energy
for the downtown.
998
00:54:25,335 --> 00:54:27,460
Okay, just checking.
- Good, yep.
999
00:54:27,543 --> 00:54:29,794
- Some of them are from here,
some of them aren't.
1000
00:54:29,877 --> 00:54:31,794
Otherwise, things are good?
- Yes.
1001
00:54:31,877 --> 00:54:36,043
I'm about to call for more
copies of "The Lonely Loon."
1002
00:54:36,126 --> 00:54:39,126
- Now they've taken
on an even bigger project--
1003
00:54:39,210 --> 00:54:42,085
turning an old sardine cannery
into workspaces,
1004
00:54:42,168 --> 00:54:44,001
restaurants, and apartments.
1005
00:54:51,335 --> 00:54:54,001
- We'll hopefully get this done
by the end of September.
1006
00:54:54,085 --> 00:54:55,001
- Uh-huh.
1007
00:54:55,085 --> 00:54:56,794
Hugh French grew up
in Eastport.
1008
00:54:56,877 --> 00:54:58,585
Like people we've met
all over the country,
1009
00:54:58,669 --> 00:55:02,418
he moved away, then came home
to try to help his town.
1010
00:55:02,502 --> 00:55:04,251
He started the Tides Institute
1011
00:55:04,335 --> 00:55:07,043
with his wife,
Kristin McKinlay.
1012
00:55:07,126 --> 00:55:09,627
- We're committed
to this place.
1013
00:55:09,710 --> 00:55:12,085
That means collections,
exhibitions,
1014
00:55:12,168 --> 00:55:13,168
fostering new work,
1015
00:55:13,251 --> 00:55:15,960
getting involved
in the downtown heavily.
1016
00:55:16,043 --> 00:55:18,585
That's how you create change.
1017
00:55:18,669 --> 00:55:19,669
- One of our programs
1018
00:55:19,752 --> 00:55:21,960
is the StudioWorks
Artist-in-Residence Program.
1019
00:55:22,043 --> 00:55:24,001
So this year
we'll have 13 artists.
1020
00:55:27,502 --> 00:55:29,251
- My interaction with the tide
1021
00:55:29,335 --> 00:55:31,627
has been to wrap the pilings
1022
00:55:31,710 --> 00:55:34,794
of this old sardine factory.
1023
00:55:34,877 --> 00:55:35,960
I came up from Brooklyn,
1024
00:55:36,043 --> 00:55:38,627
and we get a month
in this little town
1025
00:55:38,710 --> 00:55:40,460
and make work based on it.
1026
00:55:42,085 --> 00:55:44,168
Eastport, it's amazing.
1027
00:55:44,251 --> 00:55:47,669
People are cool and weird,
1028
00:55:47,752 --> 00:55:48,960
and I'm weird.
1029
00:56:01,627 --> 00:56:04,168
- The Passamaquoddy tribes
near Eastport
1030
00:56:04,251 --> 00:56:06,669
celebrate their history
every summer.
1031
00:56:06,752 --> 00:56:09,877
- We're proud Passamaquoddies
of this time of year
1032
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:11,293
and all the time.
1033
00:56:13,251 --> 00:56:15,669
- The Ancestral Paddle really
symbolizes what we've done
1034
00:56:15,752 --> 00:56:16,919
for thousands of years
1035
00:56:17,001 --> 00:56:19,710
using the waterways
to sustain ourselves.
1036
00:56:26,794 --> 00:56:30,835
- In its time,
Eastport has found and lost
1037
00:56:30,919 --> 00:56:33,669
so many ways
of sustaining itself.
1038
00:56:35,418 --> 00:56:38,210
It was once one of the busiest
shipping ports
1039
00:56:38,293 --> 00:56:40,669
till shipping went elsewhere.
1040
00:56:40,752 --> 00:56:43,877
There were
13 sardine canneries
1041
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:45,794
on the waterfront,
1042
00:56:45,877 --> 00:56:48,502
but that industry moved
to Canada.
1043
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:53,710
Traditional salmon fishing
ended
1044
00:56:53,794 --> 00:56:56,669
when the wild fish
were depleted.
1045
00:56:56,752 --> 00:56:58,669
Now there are salmon farms.
1046
00:57:05,710 --> 00:57:08,919
The town has invested millions
in the cargo pier
1047
00:57:09,001 --> 00:57:12,585
so they can ship wood pulp
from Maine forests.
1048
00:57:12,669 --> 00:57:14,293
- And we're one
of the last places
1049
00:57:14,377 --> 00:57:17,126
on the East Coast of the U.S.,
if not the last place,
1050
00:57:17,210 --> 00:57:19,251
where the forest comes right
to the sea.
1051
00:57:19,335 --> 00:57:23,210
We've done up to 400,000 tons
in one year, just wood pulp.
1052
00:57:26,335 --> 00:57:27,585
- How does a town like this
1053
00:57:27,669 --> 00:57:32,085
keep coming up with new ways
to create a future for itself?
1054
00:57:32,168 --> 00:57:37,085
It's not like Downeast Mainers
are famous for their optimism.
1055
00:57:37,168 --> 00:57:41,085
There's a fine line between
looking for the possibilities
1056
00:57:41,168 --> 00:57:43,085
and denying reality.
1057
00:57:43,168 --> 00:57:45,085
When we lived in China,
we used to joke
1058
00:57:45,168 --> 00:57:47,960
about how all the headlines
in the papers were
1059
00:57:48,043 --> 00:57:51,919
"Happiness Sweeps Nation
as Joy Abounds" or something.
1060
00:57:52,001 --> 00:57:54,168
And so I think that
you don't want to have
1061
00:57:54,251 --> 00:57:57,919
this kind of denying reality
happy talk.
1062
00:57:58,001 --> 00:58:00,126
But sometimes you just have
to try things,
1063
00:58:00,210 --> 00:58:01,669
realistic or not.
1064
00:58:05,877 --> 00:58:08,168
- Pregnant cows.
1065
00:58:08,251 --> 00:58:09,794
In 2010,
we did get a phone call
1066
00:58:09,877 --> 00:58:11,126
from a company
that was interested
1067
00:58:11,210 --> 00:58:13,794
in exporting pregnant
dairy cattle.
1068
00:58:13,877 --> 00:58:15,502
Okay, they want to put
a pregnant cow in a box
1069
00:58:15,585 --> 00:58:18,794
and ship it to parts
all over the world.
1070
00:58:18,877 --> 00:58:20,043
My general manager said,
1071
00:58:20,126 --> 00:58:22,460
"We don't know anything
about shipping pregnant cows."
1072
00:58:22,543 --> 00:58:25,126
I said, "Skip,
neither does anybody else."
1073
00:58:25,210 --> 00:58:28,168
What started off as
a little adventure of 450 cows
1074
00:58:28,251 --> 00:58:30,710
turned into approximately
50,000 head of cattle
1075
00:58:30,794 --> 00:58:34,335
that was exported
through the port of Eastport.
1076
00:58:34,418 --> 00:58:37,877
But the area of Turkey
these cows kind of went to
1077
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:40,835
was affected mightily
by the Syrian conflict
1078
00:58:40,919 --> 00:58:43,168
there on the border,
and as a result,
1079
00:58:43,251 --> 00:58:46,126
right now that industry
has dried up and stopped.
1080
00:58:46,210 --> 00:58:47,460
You know, geopolitical forces,
1081
00:58:47,543 --> 00:58:50,168
we think, just, you know,
matter on TV.
1082
00:58:50,251 --> 00:58:52,126
But even in a small town,
they can affect
1083
00:58:52,210 --> 00:58:54,919
how many pregnant dairy cattle
we put in a box.
1084
00:59:01,126 --> 00:59:02,794
- Thanks to the Internet,
1085
00:59:02,877 --> 00:59:05,293
small towns have the
same access to national news
1086
00:59:05,377 --> 00:59:07,585
as big cities...
1087
00:59:07,669 --> 00:59:11,001
but local news
is a different story.
1088
00:59:13,126 --> 00:59:14,335
In many towns,
1089
00:59:14,418 --> 00:59:16,877
the local papers
have gone out of business,
1090
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:18,877
or they're taken over
by investors
1091
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:20,752
who cut local coverage.
1092
00:59:22,460 --> 00:59:25,794
Eastport's paper
is "The Quoddy Tides."
1093
00:59:25,877 --> 00:59:29,210
- My brother Hugh is director
of the Tides Institute.
1094
00:59:29,293 --> 00:59:30,669
We bookend the downtown,
1095
00:59:30,752 --> 00:59:32,502
with the Tides Institute
on one end
1096
00:59:32,585 --> 00:59:34,502
and "The Quoddy Tides"
on the other end.
1097
00:59:34,585 --> 00:59:37,543
"The Quoddy Tides" started
in 1968 by my mother.
1098
00:59:37,627 --> 00:59:39,502
- Edward French is the editor.
1099
00:59:39,585 --> 00:59:42,043
He publishes it with his wife,
Lora Whelan.
1100
00:59:42,126 --> 00:59:43,377
She's also a reporter.
1101
00:59:43,460 --> 00:59:46,043
- Papers like this
around the country
1102
00:59:46,126 --> 00:59:48,293
are under all kinds
of pressure.
1103
00:59:48,377 --> 00:59:51,752
Your paper is thick, and it is
absolutely full of news
1104
00:59:51,835 --> 00:59:53,543
from 20 correspondents.
1105
00:59:53,627 --> 00:59:54,627
What's your secret?
1106
00:59:54,710 --> 00:59:56,085
- I don't know
that we have a secret,
1107
00:59:56,168 --> 01:00:00,377
but I think it's important for
newspapers not to keep cutting,
1108
01:00:00,460 --> 01:00:02,126
because if you keep cutting,
1109
01:00:02,210 --> 01:00:05,251
there's less and less reason
for people to buy the paper.
1110
01:00:05,335 --> 01:00:06,543
- We try to focus
1111
01:00:06,627 --> 01:00:09,919
in a way that relates directly
to local issues.
1112
01:00:10,001 --> 01:00:11,418
- So we've had
long debates here
1113
01:00:11,502 --> 01:00:14,752
over an oil refinery
or the tribal casinos.
1114
01:00:14,835 --> 01:00:17,085
And we present
what's happened elsewhere.
1115
01:00:17,168 --> 01:00:18,960
Communities that don't have
a local paper,
1116
01:00:19,043 --> 01:00:22,585
the cost for local government
increases, for instance.
1117
01:00:22,669 --> 01:00:26,460
We try not to enter into
the national debate too much.
1118
01:00:26,543 --> 01:00:29,085
It can, particularly
in this polarized time,
1119
01:00:29,168 --> 01:00:30,794
just put people off.
1120
01:00:30,877 --> 01:00:33,502
- Playing the role of the
newspaper in a small community
1121
01:00:33,585 --> 01:00:35,585
is always a delicate balance.
1122
01:00:35,669 --> 01:00:36,960
- I always feel, you know,
1123
01:00:37,043 --> 01:00:40,752
I'm okay as long as there's
no more the half the population
1124
01:00:40,835 --> 01:00:42,126
that crosses over
to the other side
1125
01:00:42,210 --> 01:00:44,168
when I walk down the street
because they don't want
1126
01:00:44,251 --> 01:00:45,502
to talk to me.
1127
01:00:45,585 --> 01:00:47,960
- People will come up to you
or give you a call and say,
1128
01:00:48,043 --> 01:00:49,293
"This is what
I'm worried about.
1129
01:00:49,377 --> 01:00:50,835
"Is there any way
that you can look into it
1130
01:00:50,919 --> 01:00:52,293
and write about it?"
1131
01:00:52,377 --> 01:00:54,627
That's a really
beautiful feeling
1132
01:00:54,710 --> 01:00:56,669
to have someone trust you
like that.
1133
01:00:56,752 --> 01:00:58,085
- Right, right.
- Yeah.
1134
01:00:58,168 --> 01:00:59,502
- We try to provide a voice
for the people
1135
01:00:59,585 --> 01:01:01,502
and the communities
that might otherwise
1136
01:01:01,585 --> 01:01:02,752
might not have a voice
1137
01:01:02,835 --> 01:01:07,627
so that people in power have
to address their concerns.
1138
01:01:07,710 --> 01:01:10,085
I think without
community newspapers,
1139
01:01:10,168 --> 01:01:12,460
democracy will really suffer.
1140
01:01:17,460 --> 01:01:22,168
- We've now been to Eastport
five times in six years.
1141
01:01:22,251 --> 01:01:25,377
Maybe asking
if Eastport will make it
1142
01:01:25,460 --> 01:01:27,669
is the wrong question.
1143
01:01:27,752 --> 01:01:32,418
The town was established
over 200 years ago...
1144
01:01:32,502 --> 01:01:33,794
and Native people were here
1145
01:01:33,877 --> 01:01:36,126
for thousands of years
before that.
1146
01:01:39,126 --> 01:01:43,335
Countless generations
have made a life here...
1147
01:01:43,418 --> 01:01:45,835
and countless more will.
1148
01:02:01,919 --> 01:02:03,627
- When you tell somebody
you're from Eastport, Maine,
1149
01:02:03,710 --> 01:02:05,710
or any small town
for that matter,
1150
01:02:05,794 --> 01:02:07,710
they just assume
that you've never seen
1151
01:02:07,794 --> 01:02:09,210
the bright lights
and the big city.
1152
01:02:09,293 --> 01:02:11,877
They'll look at you and say,
"Well, this is a cell phone.
1153
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:14,043
You ever seen one
of those before?"
1154
01:02:14,126 --> 01:02:15,043
It's just that belief
1155
01:02:15,126 --> 01:02:16,835
that, somehow,
by living out here,
1156
01:02:16,919 --> 01:02:19,210
we're not as metropolitan
and as savvy
1157
01:02:19,293 --> 01:02:21,627
as to what's going on
with the world.
1158
01:02:21,710 --> 01:02:24,210
I would argue perhaps we know
it even a little better
1159
01:02:24,293 --> 01:02:27,335
because we take the time
to focus on it,
1160
01:02:27,418 --> 01:02:29,377
and that makes us
a whole lot more worldly
1161
01:02:29,460 --> 01:02:30,877
than people believe.
1162
01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:33,293
That's probably one stick jab,
if you will,
1163
01:02:33,377 --> 01:02:34,543
from if you go to a big city
1164
01:02:34,627 --> 01:02:37,085
and somebody finds out you're
from a small town.
1165
01:02:37,168 --> 01:02:40,043
They just assume that you
haven't been paying attention.
1166
01:03:07,168 --> 01:03:10,293
- All of the travel and living
in far-flung places
1167
01:03:10,377 --> 01:03:11,460
that we've done
1168
01:03:11,543 --> 01:03:14,627
has also changed
our relationship in some way.
1169
01:03:14,710 --> 01:03:17,210
I mean,
we're stuck together forever
1170
01:03:17,293 --> 01:03:21,126
because we have
so many shared experiences,
1171
01:03:21,210 --> 01:03:24,001
a lot of them challenging,
a lot of them glorious.
1172
01:03:24,085 --> 01:03:27,460
We have a shortcut
for so many things we can say.
1173
01:03:27,543 --> 01:03:29,168
No one else
would ever understand us.
1174
01:03:29,251 --> 01:03:31,585
- Or "grasscutter for dinner."
- Grasscutter for dinner.
1175
01:03:31,669 --> 01:03:33,293
That was Africa.
That was our honeymoon.
1176
01:03:33,377 --> 01:03:35,293
- It was a giant rat.
- Yeah.
1177
01:03:35,377 --> 01:03:37,794
We knew it bonded us
as a family
1178
01:03:37,877 --> 01:03:40,126
when we did a lot of this
travel with our little kids.
1179
01:03:40,210 --> 01:03:42,168
We were a unit,
and sink or swim,
1180
01:03:42,251 --> 01:03:43,210
we were in this together.
1181
01:03:43,293 --> 01:03:44,627
We had to figure it all out.
1182
01:03:53,877 --> 01:03:55,752
- Historically,
geographically,
1183
01:03:55,835 --> 01:03:57,627
very difficult
to get through here.
1184
01:04:00,919 --> 01:04:02,043
People that came over here,
1185
01:04:02,126 --> 01:04:03,669
they were okay
with being isolated.
1186
01:04:03,752 --> 01:04:05,001
They had to be.
1187
01:04:05,085 --> 01:04:08,543
If you have
a tougher kind of person...
1188
01:04:08,627 --> 01:04:11,210
There was a poet laureate,
Louise McNeill.
1189
01:04:11,293 --> 01:04:14,502
She wrote a book called
"Gauley Mountain."
1190
01:04:14,585 --> 01:04:17,627
The very last poem in it,
it says the people here
1191
01:04:17,710 --> 01:04:21,794
"now possess the last dark
current of the wilderness."
1192
01:04:25,126 --> 01:04:26,794
- Jeff, could you give me
a level check?
1193
01:04:26,877 --> 01:04:29,460
- Hi, this is Jeff Daniels
with the Ben Daniels Band.
1194
01:04:29,543 --> 01:04:30,669
Join us this week
1195
01:04:30,752 --> 01:04:33,585
in live performance
on "Mountain Stage."
1196
01:05:01,418 --> 01:05:03,710
- West Virginia tends
to make the national news
1197
01:05:03,794 --> 01:05:05,710
for a few,
predictable things...
1198
01:05:07,960 --> 01:05:10,710
The collapse of coal mining
1199
01:05:10,794 --> 01:05:12,585
and for being one
of the first places
1200
01:05:12,669 --> 01:05:14,585
hit hard by the opioid crisis.
1201
01:05:17,043 --> 01:05:19,585
There are
growth problems, too.
1202
01:05:19,669 --> 01:05:23,710
Charleston has about half as
many people as it did in 1960.
1203
01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:38,043
- We have a few rules
when we go to a new city.
1204
01:05:38,126 --> 01:05:40,460
We never ask
about national politics
1205
01:05:40,543 --> 01:05:44,085
because that conversation
goes nowhere.
1206
01:05:44,168 --> 01:05:46,251
Airspeed is coming alive.
1207
01:05:46,335 --> 01:05:50,251
79 knots and full power.
Up we go.
1208
01:05:50,335 --> 01:05:51,502
- We do look for things
1209
01:05:51,585 --> 01:05:54,126
that people are struggling
with or achieving locally
1210
01:05:54,210 --> 01:05:56,919
that the national press
doesn't usually notice.
1211
01:06:04,627 --> 01:06:07,794
- The "Mountain Stage"!
1212
01:06:12,085 --> 01:06:13,752
- The West Side of Charleston
1213
01:06:13,835 --> 01:06:15,418
looks like what
you might expect
1214
01:06:15,502 --> 01:06:17,752
when you hear
about the city's troubles...
1215
01:06:19,377 --> 01:06:22,669
But every town is full
of things you don't expect.
1216
01:06:36,168 --> 01:06:38,502
- John and Tighe and
Ellen Bullock came up to me,
1217
01:06:38,585 --> 01:06:40,251
and I thought
they wanted me to paint
1218
01:06:40,335 --> 01:06:42,794
something on their building
like an advertisement.
1219
01:06:42,877 --> 01:06:44,335
And they said, "No, no.
1220
01:06:44,418 --> 01:06:46,335
"We want you to paint something
on the building
1221
01:06:46,418 --> 01:06:48,960
"that will change
the community,
1222
01:06:49,043 --> 01:06:52,210
change community,
change this whole place here."
1223
01:06:55,210 --> 01:06:59,126
These are Union troops
from the 34th Ohio Regiment.
1224
01:06:59,210 --> 01:07:00,835
They were stationed
right over here.
1225
01:07:00,919 --> 01:07:03,168
Painted some homeless people.
1226
01:07:03,251 --> 01:07:05,543
Her name was Froggy.
She passed away.
1227
01:07:05,627 --> 01:07:08,335
And Jim pushed her around.
1228
01:07:08,418 --> 01:07:10,502
She was a Navy veteran.
1229
01:07:10,585 --> 01:07:13,377
Natalie Tennant,
first female mountaineer.
1230
01:07:15,001 --> 01:07:16,502
Just various people came by.
1231
01:07:16,585 --> 01:07:18,669
Smitty would come by every day
and say,
1232
01:07:18,752 --> 01:07:20,335
"You got to put me in
with my dog.
1233
01:07:20,418 --> 01:07:22,168
You got to put me in there
with my dog."
1234
01:07:22,251 --> 01:07:23,502
I said, "Where's your dog?"
1235
01:07:23,585 --> 01:07:25,669
He said, "Oh, my dog's
been dead for ten years."
1236
01:07:25,752 --> 01:07:27,251
I said, "Oh, oh."
1237
01:07:31,251 --> 01:07:33,085
- I'm from a small coal town
in West Virginia
1238
01:07:33,168 --> 01:07:35,377
that had just become
dilapidated over the years,
1239
01:07:35,460 --> 01:07:38,377
and when I moved to Charleston
and I saw this neighborhood,
1240
01:07:38,460 --> 01:07:41,543
I thought, "Why is nothing
being done about it?"
1241
01:07:41,627 --> 01:07:43,502
Tighe Bullock
and his sister Megan
1242
01:07:43,585 --> 01:07:47,460
have been renovating old
buildings on the West Side.
1243
01:07:47,543 --> 01:07:49,293
- This was my first project.
1244
01:07:49,377 --> 01:07:50,835
It's the Bully Trap
Barber Shop.
1245
01:07:50,919 --> 01:07:53,502
Elk City Records.
1246
01:07:53,585 --> 01:07:56,251
This is Charleston's
newest distillery.
1247
01:07:56,335 --> 01:07:59,251
We're gonna do a quality
West Virginia corn whiskey.
1248
01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:05,710
This is a future
Books and Brews site.
1249
01:08:05,794 --> 01:08:06,835
- I was a coal miner.
1250
01:08:06,919 --> 01:08:09,710
I started off mining
at the age of 18, actually.
1251
01:08:09,794 --> 01:08:11,043
Right before bankruptcy,
1252
01:08:11,126 --> 01:08:13,585
kind of exited out
and opened a restaurant.
1253
01:08:13,669 --> 01:08:15,251
- He's so committed
to the project
1254
01:08:15,335 --> 01:08:17,669
that he actually moved his
family in across the street.
1255
01:08:20,877 --> 01:08:22,210
- Back in the studios
1256
01:08:22,293 --> 01:08:25,460
at 580 WCHS, the voice
of Charleston, West Virginia.
1257
01:08:25,543 --> 01:08:28,418
And I have some special guests
in the studio,
1258
01:08:28,502 --> 01:08:30,794
James and Deb Fallows.
1259
01:08:30,877 --> 01:08:32,919
And these are--
Good morning.
1260
01:08:33,001 --> 01:08:34,377
- Good morning, Mr. Mayor.
- Good morning.
1261
01:08:34,460 --> 01:08:38,251
When we were here in 2014
at the election time,
1262
01:08:38,335 --> 01:08:40,418
there was a levy
for the library.
1263
01:08:40,502 --> 01:08:41,669
People waving placards saying
1264
01:08:41,752 --> 01:08:43,919
"come vote yes
on the library levy,"
1265
01:08:44,001 --> 01:08:45,126
and it passed.
1266
01:08:45,210 --> 01:08:46,919
- Yeah, but they have
another one.
1267
01:08:47,001 --> 01:08:48,418
Might be hard.
1268
01:08:48,502 --> 01:08:50,126
You know,
the argument against it,
1269
01:08:50,210 --> 01:08:52,460
ladies and gents,
is the fact that,
1270
01:08:52,543 --> 01:08:54,418
"We don't need libraries.
We have computers."
1271
01:08:54,502 --> 01:08:55,960
- Oh, Deb has
the whole counter-argument.
1272
01:08:56,043 --> 01:08:56,960
- Oh, no, oh, no.
Wrong answer.
1273
01:08:57,043 --> 01:08:59,043
- Well, then take it, Deb.
Take it, take it.
1274
01:08:59,126 --> 01:09:01,251
- Really, the libraries
are the heart and soul
1275
01:09:01,335 --> 01:09:02,669
of the communities.
1276
01:09:02,752 --> 01:09:03,835
It's more than books,
1277
01:09:03,919 --> 01:09:06,502
and it's more than computers
and resources now.
1278
01:09:06,585 --> 01:09:08,835
Libraries have become
a combination
1279
01:09:08,919 --> 01:09:12,168
of education centers,
civic and social center.
1280
01:09:12,251 --> 01:09:15,585
There are classes on how
to do your job résumé...
1281
01:09:15,669 --> 01:09:17,460
- Go ahead and write,
"in eBay" there for me.
1282
01:09:17,543 --> 01:09:19,627
- How to be an eBay merchant.
1283
01:09:19,710 --> 01:09:22,418
Libraries have free sessions
with a nurse,
1284
01:09:22,502 --> 01:09:24,960
or they'll bring in a lawyer.
1285
01:09:25,043 --> 01:09:27,293
If you go into any public
library in the country,
1286
01:09:27,377 --> 01:09:29,960
people who don't have
computers at home or Wi-Fi
1287
01:09:30,043 --> 01:09:31,293
will come for access,
1288
01:09:31,377 --> 01:09:34,168
which is, as we know
these days, just critical.
1289
01:09:34,251 --> 01:09:35,669
I would really argue,
1290
01:09:35,752 --> 01:09:37,835
"Yes.
Vote yes on that library levy."
1291
01:09:37,919 --> 01:09:40,001
- I'll vote for it
if that helps any.
1292
01:09:40,085 --> 01:09:42,043
All right,
James Fallows and Deb Fallows.
1293
01:09:42,126 --> 01:09:44,752
We'll break, and we'll back
on 580 live.
1294
01:09:52,126 --> 01:09:55,210
- I came here when I was 22
on a grant.
1295
01:09:55,293 --> 01:09:56,794
I lived in Los Angeles
at that time.
1296
01:09:56,877 --> 01:09:58,377
Beginning. From the beginning.
From the very beginning.
1297
01:09:58,460 --> 01:09:59,669
I took to it immediately.
1298
01:09:59,752 --> 01:10:02,293
Loved the people, the country.
1299
01:10:02,377 --> 01:10:04,001
So beautiful.
1300
01:10:04,085 --> 01:10:05,377
You count it down and--
1301
01:10:05,460 --> 01:10:06,835
Started "Mountain Stage."
1302
01:10:06,919 --> 01:10:07,835
Public broadcasting,
1303
01:10:07,919 --> 01:10:08,835
West Virginia
public broadcasting,
1304
01:10:08,919 --> 01:10:10,835
wants to do a live show
on radio.
1305
01:10:10,919 --> 01:10:12,835
We had no expertise.
We had no equipment.
1306
01:10:12,919 --> 01:10:14,001
We had no money.
1307
01:10:14,085 --> 01:10:16,710
Took us 26 shows
till NPR invited us
1308
01:10:16,794 --> 01:10:18,377
to be a national radio show.
1309
01:10:20,335 --> 01:10:21,543
- Our host and co-founder,
1310
01:10:21,627 --> 01:10:23,710
he's also the artistic
director of "Mountain Stage,"
1311
01:10:23,794 --> 01:10:25,377
Mr. Larry Groce.
1312
01:10:25,460 --> 01:10:27,877
- Like that! Beautiful.
1313
01:10:27,960 --> 01:10:29,710
Okay, here we go.
Thank you guys for coming.
1314
01:10:29,794 --> 01:10:31,418
I hope that you enjoy the show.
1315
01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:36,085
- When you're out of here,
you find out sooner than later
1316
01:10:36,168 --> 01:10:38,251
that people have a
certain view of West Virginia.
1317
01:10:38,335 --> 01:10:39,877
People in the big picture.
1318
01:10:39,960 --> 01:10:41,335
They assume certain things
about you,
1319
01:10:41,418 --> 01:10:42,919
and they assume
you have limitations,
1320
01:10:43,001 --> 01:10:44,919
and they assume that
you're gonna be a certain way
1321
01:10:45,001 --> 01:10:46,752
and your style is gonna be
a certain way
1322
01:10:46,835 --> 01:10:48,752
because that's
what people do there.
1323
01:10:48,835 --> 01:10:50,085
And, of course,
that's not the way it is.
1324
01:10:50,168 --> 01:10:51,710
I mean, people here
are like everywhere.
1325
01:10:51,794 --> 01:10:53,502
Their tastes are wide.
1326
01:10:53,585 --> 01:10:55,210
They like a lot of kinds
of music.
1327
01:11:06,001 --> 01:11:07,919
- But I think it's gonna take
a long time
1328
01:11:08,001 --> 01:11:11,377
to reverse some stereotypes
that people have.
1329
01:11:11,460 --> 01:11:13,126
I mean,
it's gonna be a long time
1330
01:11:13,210 --> 01:11:16,418
before people see West Virginia
like they see Vermont,
1331
01:11:16,502 --> 01:11:18,377
even though we have a lot
of similarities.
1332
01:11:23,335 --> 01:11:25,585
- When you tell people
you're from Charleston,
1333
01:11:25,669 --> 01:11:28,710
what's the main thing you feel
like they misunderstand?
1334
01:11:28,794 --> 01:11:30,460
- Well, usually when you say
you're from Charleston,
1335
01:11:30,543 --> 01:11:33,418
they say, "I love
your fabulous restaurants."
1336
01:11:33,502 --> 01:11:34,418
- Yes, okay.
1337
01:11:34,502 --> 01:11:35,919
- "I love the"...
1338
01:11:36,001 --> 01:11:38,460
- The coastline.
1339
01:11:38,543 --> 01:11:41,210
- I say,
"Charleston, West Virginia,"
1340
01:11:41,293 --> 01:11:43,960
not South Carolina,
and they say, "Oh."
1341
01:11:45,251 --> 01:11:47,543
- And what do they say then?
1342
01:11:47,627 --> 01:11:51,293
- Like, "Sorry."
Like, feel sorry for us.
1343
01:11:51,377 --> 01:11:54,669
- In 2016,
the "Gazette-Mail" exposed
1344
01:11:54,752 --> 01:11:57,835
how pharmaceutical companies
were dumping massive amounts
1345
01:11:57,919 --> 01:12:00,627
of opioids on small towns
in the state,
1346
01:12:00,710 --> 01:12:04,585
resulting in the highest
overdose rates in the country.
1347
01:12:04,669 --> 01:12:07,960
Eric Eyre won a Pulitzer
for his reporting.
1348
01:12:08,043 --> 01:12:10,085
- People went
to legitimate doctors at first,
1349
01:12:10,168 --> 01:12:11,919
who actually thought they were
doing the right thing
1350
01:12:12,001 --> 01:12:14,835
because of all the marketing
by Purdue Pharma.
1351
01:12:14,919 --> 01:12:17,960
Then they would get hooked, and
the doctor would cut them off,
1352
01:12:18,043 --> 01:12:20,210
and then they'd wind up
at the pain clinic.
1353
01:12:20,293 --> 01:12:22,168
You had these small towns.
1354
01:12:22,251 --> 01:12:24,001
Kermit, that has 400 people,
1355
01:12:24,085 --> 01:12:26,669
had nearly 9 million
hydrocodone pills
1356
01:12:26,752 --> 01:12:28,168
in two years.
1357
01:12:28,251 --> 01:12:30,293
And they were doing
the same thing here.
1358
01:12:30,377 --> 01:12:31,335
I don't know if you've talked
1359
01:12:31,418 --> 01:12:32,835
to the public health
commissioner--
1360
01:12:32,919 --> 01:12:34,001
- Not yet.
1361
01:12:34,085 --> 01:12:35,168
- His point was
1362
01:12:35,251 --> 01:12:37,835
we're not gonna solve this
addiction crisis overnight,
1363
01:12:37,919 --> 01:12:40,210
but we can stop the deaths.
1364
01:12:42,085 --> 01:12:45,502
She did say that he's supposed
to come to drug court today.
1365
01:12:45,585 --> 01:12:48,794
But his mom said that there's
a bag packed under his bed.
1366
01:12:48,877 --> 01:12:50,460
- He knows he's going
to placement.
1367
01:12:50,543 --> 01:12:51,669
- He's not listening to her.
1368
01:12:51,752 --> 01:12:53,877
He's not doing anything
that she asks.
1369
01:12:53,960 --> 01:12:58,168
- To try to prevent addiction
and crime before they happen,
1370
01:12:58,251 --> 01:13:02,043
Charleston, like many cities,
has a drug court.
1371
01:13:02,126 --> 01:13:04,043
- I don't think we should.
Let's keep him.
1372
01:13:04,126 --> 01:13:06,043
- Keep him.
- Restrict where he goes.
1373
01:13:06,126 --> 01:13:07,043
- Yep.
- Right.
1374
01:13:07,126 --> 01:13:09,210
- Judge Joanna Tabit
and her team
1375
01:13:09,293 --> 01:13:11,168
at the juvenile drug court
1376
01:13:11,251 --> 01:13:13,710
divert teens who've abused
alcohol or drugs
1377
01:13:13,794 --> 01:13:16,710
away from traditional court
or jail.
1378
01:13:21,960 --> 01:13:24,585
As a treat for the kids
for making progress,
1379
01:13:24,669 --> 01:13:27,210
everyone comes out
to the ball game.
1380
01:13:29,669 --> 01:13:30,710
- I'm doing a lot better.
1381
01:13:30,794 --> 01:13:32,418
All my drug screens
have been negative,
1382
01:13:32,502 --> 01:13:35,877
and I've been good
and everything.
1383
01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:38,377
- She'd been, what,
ten when I got you?
1384
01:13:38,460 --> 01:13:41,210
- Yeah.
About six years.
1385
01:13:41,293 --> 01:13:42,460
Yeah.
1386
01:13:42,543 --> 01:13:43,710
If it wasn't for her,
1387
01:13:43,794 --> 01:13:46,752
I wouldn't be getting my head
on straight and going good.
1388
01:13:46,835 --> 01:13:48,919
- And I'm the grandmother.
I'm not the mother.
1389
01:13:49,001 --> 01:13:52,043
I got custody of her.
1390
01:13:52,126 --> 01:13:56,085
I think it's a good program.
1391
01:13:56,168 --> 01:13:57,210
But it's just a lot on me,
1392
01:13:57,293 --> 01:13:59,126
'cause where I work,
strange hours.
1393
01:13:59,210 --> 01:14:01,377
I work 7:00 P to 7:00 A,
1394
01:14:01,460 --> 01:14:03,251
and, you know, sometimes
I get mandated for 16.
1395
01:14:03,335 --> 01:14:07,251
And then you got to go to
drug court or you have to go...
1396
01:14:07,335 --> 01:14:09,752
You know, it's a little
time-consuming,
1397
01:14:09,835 --> 01:14:11,001
but it's working.
1398
01:14:11,085 --> 01:14:12,543
Do whatever works.
1399
01:14:35,043 --> 01:14:37,251
- In the '80s,
as in so many cities,
1400
01:14:37,335 --> 01:14:39,960
an enormous urban mall came
to Charleston
1401
01:14:40,043 --> 01:14:43,293
and crushed
the local downtown stores.
1402
01:14:43,377 --> 01:14:45,502
But years later,
the mall failed,
1403
01:14:45,585 --> 01:14:49,168
and the old downtown started
to revive.
1404
01:14:49,251 --> 01:14:51,001
- We're here
on Capitol Street.
1405
01:14:51,085 --> 01:14:54,168
This is kind of the central,
developed area of Charleston.
1406
01:14:54,251 --> 01:14:55,418
We're gonna visit later on,
1407
01:14:55,502 --> 01:14:57,960
and it's actually where you're
gonna be speaking tonight--
1408
01:14:58,043 --> 01:14:59,460
Taylor Books.
1409
01:14:59,543 --> 01:15:01,126
Ann Saville,
she and her husband
1410
01:15:01,210 --> 01:15:02,627
really became
the anchor tenant
1411
01:15:02,710 --> 01:15:05,627
for the further development
of this area.
1412
01:15:10,043 --> 01:15:13,460
- We had a view of the country
1413
01:15:13,543 --> 01:15:17,335
that was different from the
prevailing view in this way--
1414
01:15:17,418 --> 01:15:19,960
almost every place we went,
people said,
1415
01:15:20,043 --> 01:15:23,210
"Yeah, the U.S. is really
in horrible shape,
1416
01:15:23,293 --> 01:15:26,335
"but here in Starkville,
Mississippi, you know,
1417
01:15:26,418 --> 01:15:27,710
things are really
moving ahead."
1418
01:15:27,794 --> 01:15:31,460
Local-level engagement,
innovation, experimentation
1419
01:15:31,543 --> 01:15:35,001
is actually doing much better.
1420
01:15:35,085 --> 01:15:38,168
In Charleston, they found
some really creative ways
1421
01:15:38,251 --> 01:15:40,669
to rehab the West Side.
1422
01:15:40,752 --> 01:15:44,335
West Invest is a plan
to get teachers and cops
1423
01:15:44,418 --> 01:15:46,877
to move into
challenged neighborhoods,
1424
01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:50,460
where they could help buying
and fixing up a house.
1425
01:15:50,543 --> 01:15:53,377
Two police officers came up
with the idea.
1426
01:15:53,460 --> 01:15:56,043
- You got two guys.
Now, here's our plan.
1427
01:15:56,126 --> 01:15:58,377
Let's get officers this grant.
1428
01:15:58,460 --> 01:16:00,377
They will be able
to take this grant,
1429
01:16:00,460 --> 01:16:03,710
buy a home in what we call
neighborhoods of challenge
1430
01:16:03,794 --> 01:16:06,877
which includes crime,
dilapidated buildings,
1431
01:16:06,960 --> 01:16:09,085
lack of neighborhood norms.
1432
01:16:09,168 --> 01:16:10,543
- You know,
I noticed that yeah,
1433
01:16:10,627 --> 01:16:11,543
a lot of us worked here,
1434
01:16:11,627 --> 01:16:13,210
but a lot of us
didn't live here.
1435
01:16:13,293 --> 01:16:15,877
It's affected
how we policed.
1436
01:16:15,960 --> 01:16:18,043
I just really wanted officers
to move back into the city,
1437
01:16:18,126 --> 01:16:21,835
get that baseline
of how Charleston really is.
1438
01:16:21,919 --> 01:16:23,585
- You just have a real buy-in
1439
01:16:23,669 --> 01:16:26,126
when you live there
with the people and all.
1440
01:16:26,210 --> 01:16:29,335
And they become more
than just neighbors.
1441
01:16:29,418 --> 01:16:30,752
They become family.
1442
01:16:30,835 --> 01:16:31,752
- And, Reverend Ealy,
1443
01:16:31,835 --> 01:16:35,335
I believe this has been
divinely inspired.
1444
01:16:35,418 --> 01:16:37,752
We started
a construction company
1445
01:16:37,835 --> 01:16:40,085
solely to employ felons.
1446
01:16:40,168 --> 01:16:42,752
So, other than
the licensed contractors
1447
01:16:42,835 --> 01:16:46,251
who have agreed to serve
as mentors for these guys,
1448
01:16:46,335 --> 01:16:49,251
if you don't have a felony,
we don't want to talk to you.
1449
01:16:49,335 --> 01:16:51,126
And they'll be paid
the same wage
1450
01:16:51,210 --> 01:16:53,835
as we would pay anybody
in the free world.
1451
01:16:53,919 --> 01:16:56,085
We have banks willing
to come in
1452
01:16:56,168 --> 01:16:58,251
and coach these folks
financially.
1453
01:16:58,335 --> 01:17:00,919
Now we're improving
their credit scores
1454
01:17:01,001 --> 01:17:02,460
before they ever leave prison.
1455
01:17:02,543 --> 01:17:04,752
- I'm going home
in five months.
1456
01:17:04,835 --> 01:17:07,377
Can't wait for that.
1457
01:17:07,460 --> 01:17:09,919
And this here,
it definitely does get you used
1458
01:17:10,001 --> 01:17:12,960
to being not stuck back sitting
with a bunch of inmates.
1459
01:17:13,043 --> 01:17:16,627
- What we're finding is good,
honest, hardworking people
1460
01:17:16,710 --> 01:17:19,960
who just have hit brick wall
after brick wall
1461
01:17:20,043 --> 01:17:22,919
in trying
to get started again.
1462
01:17:35,335 --> 01:17:36,460
- A lot of people tried
to get me
1463
01:17:36,543 --> 01:17:38,085
not to put my restaurant
over here,
1464
01:17:38,168 --> 01:17:39,627
and I'm like, "Why?"
1465
01:17:39,710 --> 01:17:42,627
I said, "If you do it right,
everybody come."
1466
01:17:42,710 --> 01:17:44,627
We have town hall meetings
in here.
1467
01:17:44,710 --> 01:17:46,502
Everybody that's running
for something
1468
01:17:46,585 --> 01:17:49,919
come, want to do something
in here.
1469
01:17:50,001 --> 01:17:53,293
- Adrian Wright played
in the NFL with Tampa Bay.
1470
01:17:53,377 --> 01:17:56,460
He moved back to Charleston
to take care of his mom
1471
01:17:56,543 --> 01:17:59,043
and opened a barbecue place.
1472
01:17:59,126 --> 01:18:00,919
- Here it is
seven years later.
1473
01:18:01,001 --> 01:18:03,335
I'm the number-one barbecue.
1474
01:18:03,418 --> 01:18:05,835
Getting voted to be
on Food Network.
1475
01:18:05,919 --> 01:18:07,627
My daughter and my wife
1476
01:18:07,710 --> 01:18:10,335
basically run
the day-to-day operations now.
1477
01:18:10,418 --> 01:18:12,669
This definitely make me
feel good
1478
01:18:12,752 --> 01:18:14,919
that my kids came to live
with me.
1479
01:18:16,377 --> 01:18:18,210
I'm glad I came back home
1480
01:18:18,293 --> 01:18:22,543
to experience this and
to help build Charleston up.
1481
01:18:38,293 --> 01:18:42,293
- We were moving up from
California to the Northwest...
1482
01:18:43,794 --> 01:18:48,043
And heard Bend
was a gorgeous town...
1483
01:18:48,126 --> 01:18:49,335
in the High Desert,
1484
01:18:49,418 --> 01:18:52,043
which always has this
really evocative sense to it,
1485
01:18:52,126 --> 01:18:53,418
the High Desert.
1486
01:18:56,835 --> 01:19:00,043
- Bend, Oregon, is the
culmination of this journey
1487
01:19:00,126 --> 01:19:04,418
because it's a town that found
its way back from failure.
1488
01:19:04,502 --> 01:19:06,710
- Bend was
a pretty depressed place.
1489
01:19:06,794 --> 01:19:08,210
Talking about the '80s
1490
01:19:08,293 --> 01:19:10,543
right after the logging boom
had sort of ended,
1491
01:19:10,627 --> 01:19:13,168
it was just sort of
a tough time.
1492
01:19:13,251 --> 01:19:15,835
- Bend was very much
a blue-collar town.
1493
01:19:15,919 --> 01:19:21,085
It has become a four-season
tourist destination.
1494
01:19:21,168 --> 01:19:24,085
- People had heard of it
being a vibrant community.
1495
01:19:24,168 --> 01:19:27,710
Next thing you know,
we're gonna move here.
1496
01:19:27,794 --> 01:19:30,293
- The people who've come
in the last ten years
1497
01:19:30,377 --> 01:19:34,210
don't understand
what it was like 30 years ago.
1498
01:19:34,293 --> 01:19:36,919
This was a small,
depressed timber town
1499
01:19:37,001 --> 01:19:40,085
that had to reach bottom.
1500
01:19:40,168 --> 01:19:42,001
But we were committed.
1501
01:19:50,669 --> 01:19:52,585
- I was an actress in LA,
and it was great.
1502
01:19:52,669 --> 01:19:55,085
But we wanted to raise
our family up here,
1503
01:19:55,168 --> 01:19:57,752
so I am actually gonna go back
to school
1504
01:19:57,835 --> 01:20:00,168
and get my master's
and be a school counselor.
1505
01:20:00,251 --> 01:20:03,293
- My company's based in Austin,
but I can do most my job here,
1506
01:20:03,377 --> 01:20:06,043
you know, through
video conference or whatnot.
1507
01:20:06,126 --> 01:20:08,460
- When I was in LA and sitting
in traffic on the 405
1508
01:20:08,543 --> 01:20:11,126
and I had to drop everything
to go for this audition
1509
01:20:11,210 --> 01:20:13,585
and, like,
missing my kids' play,
1510
01:20:13,669 --> 01:20:15,335
I'm like,
"What the--am I doing?"
1511
01:20:15,418 --> 01:20:16,293
You know?
1512
01:20:16,377 --> 01:20:17,502
And, like,
I probably won't get the job.
1513
01:20:17,585 --> 01:20:20,293
I didn't get the job.
And I'm like, "This is insane."
1514
01:20:20,377 --> 01:20:23,126
I want to just be present.
1515
01:20:28,877 --> 01:20:30,418
- This is one
of the best places
1516
01:20:30,502 --> 01:20:32,835
to bike and run and swim.
1517
01:20:32,919 --> 01:20:37,627
Because of that, there's
high demand to live here.
1518
01:20:37,710 --> 01:20:40,502
My wife was a professional
distance runner.
1519
01:20:40,585 --> 01:20:42,502
I was a professional
triathlete.
1520
01:20:42,585 --> 01:20:47,335
We started a company making
food products for ourselves.
1521
01:20:47,418 --> 01:20:51,293
Bend is a place where people
move because they want to.
1522
01:20:51,377 --> 01:20:54,043
It means that
you will even work in a job
1523
01:20:54,126 --> 01:20:55,710
that you're maybe less
fulfilled in
1524
01:20:55,794 --> 01:20:57,710
because you can
fulfill yourself
1525
01:20:57,794 --> 01:20:59,335
in the other aspects
of your life,
1526
01:20:59,418 --> 01:21:00,877
primarily in recreation.
1527
01:21:00,960 --> 01:21:02,460
There's
a general understanding
1528
01:21:02,543 --> 01:21:03,960
in the business community
1529
01:21:04,043 --> 01:21:05,960
that if it's a fresh-powder
day, your employees
1530
01:21:06,043 --> 01:21:07,960
probably aren't going to be in
until 11:00 or 12:00.
1531
01:21:08,043 --> 01:21:10,877
And we support that.
1532
01:21:10,960 --> 01:21:12,085
- Yeah!
1533
01:21:12,168 --> 01:21:13,877
- It's just a little bit
different priority system,
1534
01:21:13,960 --> 01:21:15,710
value system, I think.
1535
01:21:15,794 --> 01:21:16,710
- You got that!
1536
01:21:16,794 --> 01:21:18,335
- That's part of why
we live here.
1537
01:21:18,418 --> 01:21:19,710
- Yee-haw!
1538
01:21:21,377 --> 01:21:23,877
- Bend has over 20 brewpubs
1539
01:21:23,960 --> 01:21:26,168
and is the home
of Deschutes beer.
1540
01:21:26,251 --> 01:21:29,251
After first-hand research
all over the country,
1541
01:21:29,335 --> 01:21:32,377
we've determined that the
number of breweries in a town
1542
01:21:32,460 --> 01:21:35,502
is a great indicator
of how it's doing overall.
1543
01:21:41,627 --> 01:21:44,710
- I was voted most likely
to succeed in high school,
1544
01:21:44,794 --> 01:21:46,543
and that's still--
that still is gonna happen.
1545
01:21:47,835 --> 01:21:49,210
Here we go.
1546
01:21:49,293 --> 01:21:51,585
- Work it, work it.
- Work it, work it.
1547
01:21:51,669 --> 01:21:55,460
In Bend, freelance can be
really ups and downs.
1548
01:21:56,960 --> 01:22:02,543
My dad moved to Bend in 1962.
1549
01:22:02,627 --> 01:22:06,752
And he worked for
Brooks-Scanlon, the sawmill.
1550
01:22:06,835 --> 01:22:10,251
- And so the Bend of the 1960s
when you came here,
1551
01:22:10,335 --> 01:22:12,960
what was it like?
- It was just a mill town.
1552
01:22:14,460 --> 01:22:19,460
And the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber
Company was a huge operation.
1553
01:22:19,543 --> 01:22:20,877
- Like West Virginia,
1554
01:22:20,960 --> 01:22:24,710
Oregon's economy
always depended on one thing.
1555
01:22:24,794 --> 01:22:27,251
In West Virginia, it was coal.
1556
01:22:27,335 --> 01:22:31,126
In Oregon, it was trees.
1557
01:22:31,210 --> 01:22:34,418
But in the 1980s,
the timber industry crashed,
1558
01:22:34,502 --> 01:22:36,585
and sawmills closed.
1559
01:22:36,669 --> 01:22:40,418
Bend suddenly had the highest
unemployment in the country.
1560
01:22:40,502 --> 01:22:42,335
- It was pretty staggering.
1561
01:22:42,418 --> 01:22:44,251
We had a lot of mill workers
1562
01:22:44,335 --> 01:22:47,794
that had a lot of skills
and nowhere to go.
1563
01:22:47,877 --> 01:22:51,460
It was really hard
on most people.
1564
01:22:51,543 --> 01:22:54,168
- Downtown Bend
was kind of boarded up.
1565
01:22:54,251 --> 01:22:55,710
- There was a saying in Bend,
you know.
1566
01:22:55,794 --> 01:22:57,293
"The last one to leave
downtown,
1567
01:22:57,377 --> 01:22:59,001
turn out the lights."
1568
01:22:59,085 --> 01:23:02,251
- Bend was pretty empty
when I was a kid.
1569
01:23:02,335 --> 01:23:05,669
I think that Bend was really
kind of grasping
1570
01:23:05,752 --> 01:23:08,168
for what was gonna be next.
1571
01:23:08,251 --> 01:23:10,585
My friends, whose parents were
in other industries,
1572
01:23:10,669 --> 01:23:11,627
there was hope.
1573
01:23:11,710 --> 01:23:13,960
More tourism was starting
to happen.
1574
01:23:14,043 --> 01:23:15,669
Bend has always had
Mount Bachelor to rely on,
1575
01:23:15,752 --> 01:23:18,001
and people were
still coming to ski.
1576
01:23:18,085 --> 01:23:21,585
- We began to realize a lot
of people were moving here
1577
01:23:21,669 --> 01:23:23,126
who had come here on vacation.
1578
01:23:23,210 --> 01:23:25,126
They may have come to ski.
1579
01:23:25,210 --> 01:23:28,043
But then they said, "You know,
this is a pretty nice town."
1580
01:23:28,126 --> 01:23:31,168
- Mike Hollern was also
at Brooks-Scanlon.
1581
01:23:31,251 --> 01:23:34,001
He saw that the land where
they once grew timber
1582
01:23:34,085 --> 01:23:38,126
could be used
to build communities.
1583
01:23:38,210 --> 01:23:41,043
They created a series
of planned neighborhoods
1584
01:23:41,126 --> 01:23:43,085
designed to encourage
a social life,
1585
01:23:43,168 --> 01:23:45,543
with front porches
and back alleys.
1586
01:23:49,043 --> 01:23:51,543
Stores and schools are close
to houses.
1587
01:23:51,627 --> 01:23:53,710
- The reason that people like
living on the Westside of Bend
1588
01:23:53,794 --> 01:23:56,085
is that you can walk
everywhere you want to go.
1589
01:23:56,168 --> 01:23:57,168
That's not always available
1590
01:23:57,251 --> 01:23:59,377
in the newer, suburban model
of development.
1591
01:24:02,043 --> 01:24:03,835
- As the mills were
shutting down,
1592
01:24:03,919 --> 01:24:06,669
a plan to turn them
into a retail district
1593
01:24:06,752 --> 01:24:09,001
was led by Bill Smith.
1594
01:24:09,085 --> 01:24:12,543
- When the sawmill closed,
they had 30 people employed.
1595
01:24:14,126 --> 01:24:16,752
Now there's 4,000 people
employed in the area.
1596
01:24:26,502 --> 01:24:30,710
- Bend has become this haven
for remote workers
1597
01:24:30,794 --> 01:24:34,877
that work for companies
outside of Oregon.
1598
01:24:34,960 --> 01:24:36,210
I tell entrepreneurs,
1599
01:24:36,293 --> 01:24:39,251
"You can build your business
anywhere today."
1600
01:24:39,335 --> 01:24:41,669
Technology allows that.
1601
01:24:41,752 --> 01:24:43,293
Capital and your customers
1602
01:24:43,377 --> 01:24:45,085
don't care
where you're located.
1603
01:24:56,460 --> 01:24:59,251
- Deschutes County has
about 6,000 people a year
1604
01:24:59,335 --> 01:25:01,251
moving into the county.
1605
01:25:01,335 --> 01:25:03,585
So many new people
are moving in.
1606
01:25:03,669 --> 01:25:04,919
A lot of times, this is
1607
01:25:05,001 --> 01:25:06,085
the first place people will go
1608
01:25:06,168 --> 01:25:07,251
because they don't know
1609
01:25:07,335 --> 01:25:08,835
anybody else in the community
1610
01:25:08,919 --> 01:25:12,210
and they need to start making
some social connections.
1611
01:25:13,835 --> 01:25:17,251
Last night, we had a program
out at a brewery in here town
1612
01:25:17,335 --> 01:25:19,210
with author Rich Benjamin.
1613
01:25:20,460 --> 01:25:23,627
- I've written a book called
"Searching for Whitopia."
1614
01:25:23,710 --> 01:25:25,877
How do I define a whitopia?
1615
01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:28,960
That it is at least 85% white,
1616
01:25:29,043 --> 01:25:33,460
the majority of that growth
has been from white residents.
1617
01:25:33,543 --> 01:25:36,126
- Bend has more than 90%
white people.
1618
01:25:36,210 --> 01:25:37,919
Why is that happening?
1619
01:25:38,001 --> 01:25:40,085
- About white-on-white
gentrification.
1620
01:25:40,168 --> 01:25:42,293
- Last night was
a really great conversation
1621
01:25:42,377 --> 01:25:45,126
for how we can embrace
diversity.
1622
01:25:45,210 --> 01:25:47,126
How do we make this
a welcoming place
1623
01:25:47,210 --> 01:25:50,001
for people that are moving
into Deschutes County?
1624
01:25:53,168 --> 01:25:56,418
- If I could change anything
in Bend, it would be diversity.
1625
01:25:56,502 --> 01:25:59,251
- Tom Bedell and his stepson,
RA Beattie,
1626
01:25:59,335 --> 01:26:01,502
make custom guitars in Bend.
1627
01:26:09,710 --> 01:26:13,126
What would the naysayers say
is wrong with Bend?
1628
01:26:13,210 --> 01:26:14,835
- It's too big.
1629
01:26:14,919 --> 01:26:16,126
- Yeah, if they got here first,
1630
01:26:16,210 --> 01:26:18,293
they would now say
it's too big.
1631
01:26:18,377 --> 01:26:19,335
I wouldn't say that.
1632
01:26:19,418 --> 01:26:21,669
So there's always pressure,
you know?
1633
01:26:21,752 --> 01:26:24,168
Like, now that I live here,
Californians, stay home.
1634
01:26:24,251 --> 01:26:25,335
- Right?
1635
01:26:25,418 --> 01:26:27,627
- Yeah.
- But that's not fair.
1636
01:26:27,710 --> 01:26:28,835
- It's really hard to complain
1637
01:26:28,919 --> 01:26:31,669
about the people that
are making your economy work.
1638
01:26:31,752 --> 01:26:34,502
- Growth is fascinating
because communities think
1639
01:26:34,585 --> 01:26:37,877
that the secret
to their...
1640
01:26:37,960 --> 01:26:40,335
prosperity is growth.
1641
01:26:40,418 --> 01:26:41,460
And I believe
1642
01:26:41,543 --> 01:26:45,335
that our whole culture
is gonna go through a change
1643
01:26:45,418 --> 01:26:48,001
to where growth
isn't "the ideal thing."
1644
01:26:48,085 --> 01:26:51,335
If climate change comes
from growth, right?
1645
01:26:51,418 --> 01:26:54,001
Expanding economies
isn't necessarily
1646
01:26:54,085 --> 01:26:57,669
adding to the quality of life
of humans on this planet.
1647
01:26:57,752 --> 01:27:01,043
- The real question is,
how do you grow in a fashion
1648
01:27:01,126 --> 01:27:05,752
that doesn't create continued
reliance upon the automobile?
1649
01:27:05,835 --> 01:27:07,418
I have so many friends now
1650
01:27:07,502 --> 01:27:09,377
that are looking
to either move out of town
1651
01:27:09,460 --> 01:27:11,210
because they can no longer
afford to live here
1652
01:27:11,293 --> 01:27:13,418
or are forced to commute
30 minutes a day.
1653
01:27:13,502 --> 01:27:14,752
And so that sort of corrodes
1654
01:27:14,835 --> 01:27:16,377
a community,
you know, cohesiveness
1655
01:27:16,460 --> 01:27:17,877
because it
no longer allows people
1656
01:27:17,960 --> 01:27:19,418
to live in the communities
where they work.
1657
01:27:32,794 --> 01:27:36,502
- Who determines a town's
relationship to nature?
1658
01:27:38,669 --> 01:27:40,293
There are still places
1659
01:27:40,377 --> 01:27:43,293
where you can imagine
a world without people.
1660
01:27:46,293 --> 01:27:51,418
When Europeans arrived, they
carved out farms and ranches.
1661
01:27:51,502 --> 01:27:55,877
Small towns were places
to buy and sell goods.
1662
01:27:55,960 --> 01:27:58,293
But as the country
industrialized,
1663
01:27:58,377 --> 01:28:02,710
the landscape turned into
something unrecognizable...
1664
01:28:05,460 --> 01:28:08,543
Or these days,
all too recognizable
1665
01:28:08,627 --> 01:28:10,543
because the same strip malls,
1666
01:28:10,627 --> 01:28:14,543
box stores, and chain
restaurants are everywhere.
1667
01:28:26,710 --> 01:28:30,835
And when nature is erased,
how can you ever get it back?
1668
01:28:30,919 --> 01:28:33,418
It's a tense question in Bend.
1669
01:28:47,794 --> 01:28:50,293
- My name's Sky Sharp,
and what we do here
1670
01:28:50,377 --> 01:28:53,418
is we raise beef
in a good way,
1671
01:28:53,502 --> 01:28:56,335
and we sell it farm to table.
1672
01:28:59,543 --> 01:29:01,627
I chose this life
a long time ago
1673
01:29:01,710 --> 01:29:05,669
because it was just where
I felt right, you know?
1674
01:29:05,752 --> 01:29:08,126
My whole adult life,
I've been a cowboy.
1675
01:29:08,210 --> 01:29:12,001
Like, bunched cows
and rode horses.
1676
01:29:12,085 --> 01:29:16,502
I just ended up
really liking cows
1677
01:29:16,585 --> 01:29:18,710
more than I liked people.
1678
01:29:20,418 --> 01:29:24,377
My horses and my dogs,
we try to work as a unit.
1679
01:29:28,210 --> 01:29:29,835
In the five years
that we've been here,
1680
01:29:29,919 --> 01:29:31,085
it's growing so fast
1681
01:29:31,168 --> 01:29:35,669
as far as people moving
from California and wherever.
1682
01:29:35,752 --> 01:29:37,418
Lots of farms and ranches
1683
01:29:37,502 --> 01:29:41,293
getting turned
into subdivisions.
1684
01:29:41,377 --> 01:29:43,919
Doesn't feel like communities
see food producers
1685
01:29:44,001 --> 01:29:46,460
as necessity.
1686
01:29:47,794 --> 01:29:49,043
It's hard.
1687
01:29:49,126 --> 01:29:51,335
I met those cows
when they're born.
1688
01:29:51,418 --> 01:29:55,543
You know,
I witnessed their first steps.
1689
01:29:55,627 --> 01:29:59,543
And I also take away
their last breath, you know?
1690
01:29:59,627 --> 01:30:01,752
So it's emotionally tough.
1691
01:30:10,669 --> 01:30:13,752
I love watching the subtleties
of things
1692
01:30:13,835 --> 01:30:16,418
that always reminds me
as a human being
1693
01:30:16,502 --> 01:30:18,919
that I'm part
of something much bigger.
1694
01:30:21,293 --> 01:30:23,377
My whole life, I've felt
like I had a purpose,
1695
01:30:23,460 --> 01:30:25,585
and that purpose was
to be a shepherd
1696
01:30:25,669 --> 01:30:29,585
and a steward to nature.
1697
01:30:29,669 --> 01:30:31,960
That's what we try to do here.
1698
01:30:58,710 --> 01:31:00,251
- We started this project
1699
01:31:00,335 --> 01:31:03,710
in the wake
of a global financial crisis.
1700
01:31:03,794 --> 01:31:05,085
And as we finish,
1701
01:31:05,168 --> 01:31:07,585
the world is dealing
with upheavals
1702
01:31:07,669 --> 01:31:09,251
on a historic scale.
1703
01:31:12,210 --> 01:31:15,126
- The pandemic has transformed
just about everything.
1704
01:31:19,543 --> 01:31:22,126
And inequalities
in race and class
1705
01:31:22,210 --> 01:31:24,502
are now in everyone's sight.
1706
01:31:28,919 --> 01:31:30,293
- It's easy to forget
1707
01:31:30,377 --> 01:31:34,001
that our history is full
of convulsive moments.
1708
01:31:47,418 --> 01:31:51,085
Every town has had
its heartbreaks and setbacks.
1709
01:31:52,919 --> 01:31:56,502
And these days, every town
is dealing with new ones.
1710
01:31:59,877 --> 01:32:01,710
- On this journey, we've seen
1711
01:32:01,794 --> 01:32:05,001
how towns have pulled
themselves up in the past.
1712
01:32:05,085 --> 01:32:07,710
We can learn
from how they did it.
1713
01:32:09,835 --> 01:32:12,085
Recovery takes
working together.
1714
01:32:12,168 --> 01:32:14,960
It's harder
in polarized times,
1715
01:32:15,043 --> 01:32:17,919
but towns do it
by focusing on local issues
1716
01:32:18,001 --> 01:32:21,043
that are outside the divisions
of national politics.
1717
01:32:23,585 --> 01:32:25,001
- Each town has individuals
1718
01:32:25,085 --> 01:32:28,543
who feel a responsibility
to their community.
1719
01:32:28,627 --> 01:32:32,251
- We tried a lot
of different things with you.
1720
01:32:32,335 --> 01:32:33,752
Nobody gave up on you,
1721
01:32:33,835 --> 01:32:37,210
so we don't want you giving up
on yourself.
1722
01:32:37,293 --> 01:32:40,835
- Democracy has always
depended on leadership.
1723
01:32:40,919 --> 01:32:44,502
- The woman chief is powerful.
The women ruled.
1724
01:32:44,585 --> 01:32:47,210
I don't know
how it shifted to the men.
1725
01:32:47,293 --> 01:32:49,585
I hope these girls look at me
and say,
1726
01:32:49,669 --> 01:32:52,752
"I could be that
one of these days."
1727
01:32:52,835 --> 01:32:55,251
- Community colleges
help people start
1728
01:32:55,335 --> 01:32:57,210
and restart their lives.
1729
01:32:57,293 --> 01:32:59,835
- We take everyone.
We're open to everyone.
1730
01:32:59,919 --> 01:33:03,043
Everyone has
an opportunity here.
1731
01:33:03,126 --> 01:33:07,335
- Local newspapers and media
play a crucial role.
1732
01:33:07,418 --> 01:33:11,585
National news isn't gonna tell
you what matters in your town.
1733
01:33:11,669 --> 01:33:15,585
- Voters need journalists
at their city council meetings
1734
01:33:15,669 --> 01:33:16,877
and their school board
meetings.
1735
01:33:16,960 --> 01:33:18,919
This community
stepped up to say,
1736
01:33:19,001 --> 01:33:23,168
"We want you to stay here
and keep doing journalism."
1737
01:33:23,251 --> 01:33:25,585
- Public art
helps us understand
1738
01:33:25,669 --> 01:33:28,085
where we've been
and where we're going,
1739
01:33:28,168 --> 01:33:32,585
especially when people
disagree on those things.
1740
01:33:32,669 --> 01:33:34,919
- If you're at a place
where there is no scene,
1741
01:33:35,001 --> 01:33:36,585
you make your own scene.
1742
01:33:36,669 --> 01:33:38,585
I'm the person dumb
or crazy enough
1743
01:33:38,669 --> 01:33:40,627
to put my money right here.
1744
01:33:40,710 --> 01:33:42,710
I'm going to do
contemporary art
1745
01:33:42,794 --> 01:33:44,126
in San Bernardino.
1746
01:33:46,502 --> 01:33:49,585
- Forward-looking towns take
on climate change
1747
01:33:49,669 --> 01:33:51,585
and growth.
1748
01:33:51,669 --> 01:33:56,710
The pandemic reminds us that
humans aren't above nature.
1749
01:33:56,794 --> 01:33:58,335
We're part of it.
1750
01:34:05,418 --> 01:34:08,335
It seems like wherever we go,
1751
01:34:08,418 --> 01:34:12,585
people have a certain kind
of stubbornness.
1752
01:34:12,669 --> 01:34:15,669
Even when things are dark...
1753
01:34:17,710 --> 01:34:19,669
They're imagining
a better future.
1754
01:35:06,251 --> 01:35:07,335
- People would ask,
1755
01:35:07,418 --> 01:35:09,710
why am I spending
so much time on this?
1756
01:35:09,794 --> 01:35:13,001
Why am I not doing this
in a bigger city?
1757
01:35:13,085 --> 01:35:16,752
I found this quote
in "Julius Caesar"...
1758
01:35:42,960 --> 01:35:44,210
I always felt this way.
1759
01:35:44,293 --> 01:35:47,710
This is a place where,
actually, the tide's in,
1760
01:35:47,794 --> 01:35:49,418
and if you put your boats out
1761
01:35:49,502 --> 01:35:51,710
or if you put your ventures out
right now,
1762
01:35:51,794 --> 01:35:53,752
you know, we can make something
of ourselves.
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