My birthday is in the first week of August.
As an exercise, I wanted to see what 36 small towns have had the greatest impact on my life.
Now, my rules were simple: To list a town, I had to have lived there, spent the night there, spent money there, or have a good story I could tell off the top of my head from my time there.
These are in no particular order. No one is favored over the other.
Adam Tidrow is a serial entrepreneur, expert in American business and economic history, and scholar whose work focuses primarily on local economic development in the American Rust Belt. His newest project, Let The Robots Starve, is an advocacy movement aimed at restoring the soul of locally-owned businesses that serve local communities. He is currently performing research for his forthcoming book, Baptism By Fire.
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