Happy Small Towns

Good news doesn’t only happen in big cities. Happy Small Towns spotlights the people, businesses, and stories making a difference in small communities across the country and beyond.

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Malini Angelica: Beyond the Beach: Corfu's Hidden Villages, Ghost Towns, and Liquid Gold Olive Oil

August 4, 2026

From a ghost village hidden beneath Corfu's highest peak to a family olive grove making

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Malini Angelica: Western Sicily's Secret Coast: Trapani, the Egadi Islands, and the Food That Tells Its Own History

August 4, 2026

Western Sicily hides its best surprises west of Palermo: a port city where seafood couscous

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Malini Angelica: Uruguay's Chivito, Carnival, and Quiet Confidence Will Make You Rethink South America

August 4, 2026

Montevideo sits quietly between Argentina and Brazil, offering colonial plazas, a 100-year-old chivito bar, the

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Green Day: Green Day's Own Comedy Film About Chasing a New Year's Show Is Hitting Theaters This August

August 4, 2026

A band called Analogue Dogs gets a personal callback from Tre Cool and an invitation

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GREEN DAY HDTV: Green Day and Billie Eilish Took the Stage Together at FireAid to Tell Los Angeles: 'We Got You Back'

August 4, 2026

Green Day and Billie Eilish shared the stage at FireAid's benefit concert in Los Angeles,

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MOLLY DIXON: What Actually Happens in the Dead Centre of Australia (Gorges, Campfires, and Zero Crowds)

August 4, 2026

Molly Dixon drove 150 km west of Alice Springs into a landscape most Australians never

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MOLLY DIXON: Molly Dixon Spent 150 Days Alone in Tasmania and Says Even That Was Not Enough

August 4, 2026

Molly Dixon loaded her vehicle onto the Spirit of Tasmania, paid around $2,000 return for

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MOLLY DIXON: Molly Dixon Drove 25 Hours Alone Through the Australian Outback to Answer One Question

August 4, 2026

Molly Dixon spent 3.5 years living alone in her vehicle across Australia, driving more than

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Quantum Makers: One Man Spent a Year Building a Floating Self-Sustaining Village on a Remote Vietnamese Lake

August 4, 2026

One man spent twelve months in the rainy forests of Vietnam building a floating bamboo

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Disney: Walt Disney Built Disneyland in One Year on Borrowed Money and Sheer Belief

August 3, 2026

Walt Disney broke ground on Disneyland in 1954 with barely ten percent of the drawings

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Alex the Historian: How Walt Disney Built Disneyland With $40, a Brother's Faith, and 366 Impossible Days

August 3, 2026

Walt Disney arrived in Los Angeles in 1923 with $40 in his wallet and half

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Julien Cohen: A Stranger Asked a Musician to Play Beatles in Liverpool. Then the Whole Street Joined In.

August 3, 2026

A casual request on a Liverpool street turned into something nobody had planned: a musician

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