Stories of small town life: the claustrophobia and freedom people feel in small towns, the yearning people feel in small towns. And three teenagers in one of the harshest urban environments explain how the public housing projects are like a small town.
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Act Two
How Do You Keep Them Down On The Farm? Marry Them
Singles in Agriculture. By reporter Liz Weil and Alix Spiegel. (25 minutes)
Act Three
Small Town In The Big City
Paul Johnson, Carlos Appleby, and Sanantonio Brooks talk about how their housing project is like a small town. (14 minutes)
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Act Two: Gangster's Daughter
Susan Berman, author of the memoir Easy Street, the True Story of a Gangster's Daugher, reads from her book about her father Davie Berman, a Jewish gangster and one of the men — with Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel — who created modern Las Vegas.
Act Two: Love
Scott Richer and Julie Riggs of Louisville, Kentucky, were supposed to have their first kiss at the corner where South Fourth Street meets the alley behind the West End Baptist Church.
Act Three: Please Re-lease Me
A man who we're calling "Dennis" inherits his father's job as a landlord of a big apartment building. His dad had warned him that bad tenants could drive even a good man to become heartless, but Dennis vowed that would never happen to him.
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