Sentences with phrase «place of a small town»

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For those who love pulp fiction or the crime blotters in their town weeklies, however, there is no better place to look than in the small print of the Wall Street Journal's B section.

A swathe of small towns across middle America will be rolling out the red carpet for people clamoring to see the total solar eclipse on August 21 — the first coast - to - coast total solar eclipse in the U.S. since 1918 — only visible from a few places.

David Ian Gray, a retail strategist based in Vancouver, says that there remain huge differences between the Bay's flagships (the so - called «A» stores) and the bulk of stores in suburban malls and small towns — the «B» and «C» stores, in places like Medicine Hat, Alta., and Sydney, N.S. — which Gray says don't have the same selection or service, and none of the magic.

After all, Twitter cofounder Evan Williams grew up in a town with a population of just 369 — which shows that disruptive innovators can come from very small places.

With a population of just over 45,000 people, Cornwall is an «in - the - middle» kind of place — not quite large enough to be a city, but certainly bigger than a small town, and as a Read more...

Updike is most lyrical when describing his youth in the small eastern Pennsylvania town of Shillington, poignantly evoking the people and the places which served as his defining presences.

To make traditional villages, towns, neighborhoods and cities today — like the places we love to visit (villages and towns like Cooperstown and Key West; small cities like Annapolis, Savannah and Santa Barbara; and big cities with distinctive neighborhoods like Boston, New York and Chicago)-- requires a conscious and conscientious rejection of the way we've been making human settlements since 1945.

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (releases November 6, 2012, available for pre-order)-- Kingsolver's new novel takes place in a small - town Tennessee and tells the story of a woman who must confront «her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at large.»

He writes that the «sensuous aspects of his faith — the familiar fundamentalist hymns, the voices of small - town preachers crackling through his AM radio, the «thunderous, rhythmic word pounding the Spirit of God» — bound him, far more than dogma did, «like a slip knot, loosely but decisively to my religious place.»

Seldom are ordained women placed in full charge of a local church, save in some small town and rural congregations that can not afford or find a man.

In the middle of the hot summer of 1925, the famous «Monkey Trial» took place in Dayton, Tennessee, a small town of about eighteen hundred people in the Cumberland Valley.

A struggling New York artist living with his black mistress, Peter lacks the sense of vocation, the sense of place, that his father came to know as a small - town teacher.

The place is so small, and the houses are so spread apart by farmland and such that the only stop to trick or treat at is the tiny convenience store in the middle of the town square.

I took full advantage of the town's small health food store and bulk bins, and a random plum tree in the parking lot of a strip mall, of all places.

My parents have a cottage near an area of PEI called Tyne Valley, a tiny place filled with small town charm.

Travel with us to beautiful Kokernot Field, a gem of a place where time has stopped and small - town baseball has been elevated into a work of fine art

While it reflects yesteryear, the design and architecture of our Downtown also plants you firmly in a place of much excitement, cultural activity, dining excursions - all while giving you a sense of a welcoming small town neighborhood.

As the rally for Occupy Steubenville took place at the city town hall, a smaller gathering organized by concerned parents for the youth of Steubenville took place at Jim Woods Park.

In the north, agriculture is the dominant activity while in the south there's few finer places to visit than Savusavu, a small but pretty town with a number of hot springs nearby.

«And it's still a lovely place - what we've got here is small - town America, which you don't see a lot of anymore.»

These cultural contrasts are placed in the context of a memoir of Le Billon's year in her husband's home town, a small, French seaside village.

If you love the charm of fictional places like Stars Hollow, you're going to adore these 12 most beautiful small towns in the United States!

The hearing, «When Wal - Mart Comes to Town: The Effect on Small Businesses and Communities: A Historical and Prospective View,» to take place Wednesday, was scheduled amid buzz of a Walmart opening within the five boroughs, possibly in Manhattan.

Indian Lake Supervisor Brian Wells expressed a desire to attract some of these transplants deeper into the Adirondack Park, places like Wells and Morehouse, small towns in Hamilton County.

It is, actually, a classic small town, the kind of place that seems primed to attract families looking for a great place to raise children.

It took place in the civic hall of the small Pennine town of Uppermill, in the Oldham East constituency.

Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne - Holst, who also was present Monday, said several small sewage treatment plants could be placed in different locations, instead of having one large plant.

Rosendale, like many small towns in Ulster County, has the task of welcoming investments in residential and commercial areas while ensuring that all ventures are sustainable and maintain as affordable a place to live as possible.

Downtown Revitalization Initiative: Similar to 2016's Downtown Revitalization Initiative, Phase II would create a competitive grant program for place - making strategies to revitalize the downtown areas of suburban small cities, villages and towns in the greater Buffalo / Niagara area.

The small - town kid felt out of place in the Ivy League, but not for the reasons one might expect.

But Joel reminded us that naming killer viruses after specific places can be very stigmatizing; with Lassa virus, discovered in 1969 in a small Nigerian town of that name, it had caused no end of problems to the people from the locality.

I thought I already knew most of the healthy dining options in my small Pennsylvania town but HealthyOut pointed me to new places and secret menu options — such as lettuce wraps substituted for buns — that have been fun to try.

I actually worked in Harvey (Western Australia) for a couple of years and was surprised to find so many places I hadn't seen or been to before in such a small town including this picturesque scene of pine trees lining a dam.

So as we stood in our new apartment, in our beautiful small town, with all of our possessions in one place, we felt so happy.

Now on to the outfit, I almost bought an oversized coat two weeks ago but didn't because I will look so out of place in my small town.

Tommy and I are big sushi fans, but we don't get to eat it as much we would like, because our favorite sushi place is about an hour away (all of our favorite restaurants are about an hour away actually, except Chick - fil - a... but that's what happens when you live in a small town).

I have a picture in my head from a Martha Stewart Living magazine from years ago of a home with a large wrap - around porch much like the home I live in now, draped with patriotic swags (perfectly placed of course) evoking the charm of Small Town U.S.A..

And while it's possible to find charm in almost all these places, we found the highlights of our trip in the small port towns and rural farmlands of southern Ontario... ruins of an Indian village dating from the 1500's.

Just say that you spend time in both places, because of your work, or just because you like the small town air for relaxing.

Smaller towns don't have the luxury of places like D Bar where you can come for only desserts or Casa Bonita where... well, you know the deal don't you?

The men who live in smaller towns or just in countries and places with not many foreigners are advised to look for nearest centers of Russian language and / or culture.

I live in a small town where everyone knows everyone but it's my kind of place with lots of woods.

Other NE singles are looking forward to get to know and love you at our club, because we gather people from Omaha to York, from Lincoln to Bellevue and many other smaller towns and places of our great state!

This coupled with an astounding number of college students condensed into such a relatively small area, online dating offers Bean Town singles a place to easily weed through the numerous potential daters.

The horror - thriller takes place in the small village of New Bethlehem, a devout community kept under the tight reins of the town's vigilant Elders.

A small - town Canadian waitress pining for the attention of the former high - school football star finds her affections returned from the least likely of places in this entry into the 2005 Vancouver Film Festival from director Vic Sarin.

Freddy Heflin (Sylvester Stallone) is the sheriff of a place everyone calls Cop Land - a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he's long admired.

Based on a novel by Richard Peck called Don't Look and It Won't Hurt, Allison Anders's melodramatic coming - of - age tale Gas Food Lodging takes place in Laramie, NM, a small town right off the highway.

The Magnificent Dead takes place in the 1870s in the small Texas town of Rosewood where local rancher Jared Hamilton and his men have declared war on the town, using fear and death to prevent a new railroad line from coming through.

Gen battles to find a place within the depressed Maori community of small town Gisborne (six hours east of Auckland), eventually convincing an old friend, Noble (Kirk Torrance), to let him teach chess to a youth group of disadvantaged kids.