Dar Williams is a musician and author. The New Yorker has described her as "one of America's very best singer-songwriters." Her latest album is the self-produced and critically acclaimed Emerald, and her new book, What I Found in a Thousand Towns, combines anthropological field work she conducted as a touring musician with scholarly research on the renaissance of American towns and small cities.
Mentioned in This Episode:
- Kid City Museum (MIddletown, CT)
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, by Robert A. Caro
- Jane Jacobs (wiki)
- Richard Florida (wiki)
- Jeff Speck (wiki)
- Minnesota Music Coalition
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