We're rolling Volume 2 of 40 Towns out across the next week or so, starting with three powerful stories on the front page: "Dark Shit," Jamie Alliotts harrowing account of what happened when he went looking for trouble in a White River Junction, Vermont dive bar; "Hotline," by Taylor Malmsheimer, 24-7 with the region's only suicide call center; and "Softer Than Clay," Lindsay MacMillan's deeply-reported account of a season with the children of the Haven, the Upper Valley's only shelter for homeless families.
So we're starting with suicide, addiction, and homelessness. "Dark Shit," indeed. And yet these stories aren't morbid. They're not about slumming. They're not poverty porn. They're about real people struggling to survive -- and, against long odds, managing to do so.
More to come. True stories from an undertaker, a halfway house, a crisis pregnancy center. Up in the air without an engine. On the farm without a clue. At the dump, smelling the breeze...
So we're starting with suicide, addiction, and homelessness. "Dark Shit," indeed. And yet these stories aren't morbid. They're not about slumming. They're not poverty porn. They're about real people struggling to survive -- and, against long odds, managing to do so.
More to come. True stories from an undertaker, a halfway house, a crisis pregnancy center. Up in the air without an engine. On the farm without a clue. At the dump, smelling the breeze...
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