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
You come from every corner of our country -- from privilege and from poverty, from cities and small towns.
VOA: special.2010.05.28
Investors willing to work a little harder can earn another percentage point by buying general obligation bonds from small lesser-known towns and school districts.
All those kids in inner cities, small farm towns -- kids dreaming of becoming scientists or doctors, engineers or entrepreneurs, diplomats or even a President -- they need a champion in Washington, because the future will never have as many lobbyists as the status quo -- children don't have lobbyists the way oil companies or banks do.
As opposed to gentry politics, whose bastions lay in fashionable urban districts and college towns, Truman-style democracy reached into the vast suburban dreamscape--even into small towns and rural areas.