The Town That Time Forgot
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The Soviet Union collapsed 16 years ago, but you wouldn't know that in a Belarus dacha hamlet
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Long gone are the days when a film held on to one story and fleshed it out through the
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Even as a secret community that gave birth to the atomic bomb morphed into a bustling government-lab town, many of its most historic sites remained tucked away from view.
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In Latin America, the memory of the "disappeared" never went away. In the United States, they were hardly ever known.
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OLD ADAMINABY, Australia  - Drowned 50 years ago for progress and the promise of near limitless water, the town of Old Adaminaby has re-emerged from its sunken grave as drought ravages one of Australia's biggest lakes.
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COTTENHAM, England -- A brutal killing, cigarette smuggling, a tax revolt, and a human rights dispute -- the last things one would expect to find in an English village.
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BELGRADE, Dec 6 (IPS) - The meeting of several hundred World War II  veterans last weekend would not have meant much, had it not been  convened in a town that symbolises so many things about a country  that no longer exists, Yugoslavia.
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Look, you travel 33 seasons since your town&#39;s last fling with Abner Doubleday, you, too, could get all dewy-eyed with the notion of bringing back his grand old game for another try.
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Imagine being 22, and having to carry a franchise. Now imagine being 22, and having to carry the hopes and dreams of an entire city. A city that's known nothing in sports but heartbreak for two generations. A city so starved for something good its most memorable events were somebody else's triumphs.
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Townspeople had a hard time squaring an unsavory past with their wholesome self-image.
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Sometimes the best lesson from the past is to forget it before it shoves you into trouble.
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CHOROTIS, Argentina - This is an old railroad town, with severed telegraph lines dangling from track-side poles and a depot where graffiti is the one obvious sign of recent activity.
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Your past can be changed--or at least your recollection of it.
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No one quite remembers how the weekly races in Lynn Woods got their start. Not surprising, considering it was at least 35 years ago.
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As the people of Beslan struggle with their grief, the schoolhouse where their children died has become a place of echoes and memories.
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Proving boomerangs really do come back, an Australian town was on Thursday celebrating the return of a boomerang stolen from an outback museum by an American tourist 25 years ago.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Oct. 1 -- Little Juan David, like so many poor children in this city, might well have been forgotten.