ThisIsMyTown

#ThisIsMyTown is a reader-participation tag from Our Towns by James and Deborah Fallows. The book invites readers to “send a tweet about their cities to @JamesFallows or @FallowsDeb, with the tag #ThisIsMyTown, or a longer message about where you live and why” — extending the authors’ cross-country reporting on the renewal of small and mid-sized American towns into an ongoing crowdsourced project.

It captures the book’s core method: documenting civic renewal town by town, from the ground up, through the voices of the people who live there.

Where this appears

• Our Towns — the Fallowses’ reader-participation hashtag inviting people to share why they love their town