Small towns in the Appalachian Mountains needed nurse-midwives and I went to a town called Truitt, my father's first name.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

During one week in nineteen forty-eight, poisonous air in a nearby town killed twenty people and sickened six thousand others.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

The first ship carrying the gold seekers arrived in the port town of Skagway,Alaska, on July twenty-sixth,eighteen ninety-seven.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

It added to the unusual population of Forks,Washington -- which is a real town in the Pacific Northwest.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

In eighteen eighty-six, Maggie Tobin left home for the town of Leadville,Colorado, to join a sister and brother who already lived there.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

In eighteen ninety-two, workers at a Carnegie Steel mill in the nearby town of Homestead went on strike.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

By the end of eighteen eighty-one, the town of Tombstone had a population of more than five thousand.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

In eighteen eighty-six, he was elected the lawman or sheriff of Douglas,Arizona, the town near his ranch.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

Helen Martins created a whole other kind of magical environment in the town of Nieu-Bethesda, South Africa.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

But word leaked out that it was to take place in the town of Rhinebeck, about a two-hour drive from New York City.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

Elvis Aaron Presley was born in the southern town of Tupelo, Mississippi on January eighth, nineteen thirty-five.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

This writer is best known for his novels about the private lives of small-town, middle class Americans.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

She sang in one of the most important concert theaters in the city - Town Hall.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

In October of eighteen fifty-nine, a group of anti-slavery extremists attacked the town of Harpers Ferry.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

But first,a report on a town marking the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of an anti-slavery rebellion.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

Last year,she published the best-selling book "Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World."

VOA: special.2009.02.23

The pro-slavery majority quickly voted to move to a town close to the Missouri border.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

In the spring of eighteen ninety-four, a labor union organizer went to George Pullman's town.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

"My Kind of Town" was made popular by Frank Sinatra in nineteen sixty-four.

VOA: special.2011.07.17

Bridges protected by structures that look like barns represent historic small-town America.

VOA: special.2010.10.25