Reinventing Community Part 4
Series: Reinventing Community
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You?d think the population would plummet when a town loses three sawmills. But that hasn?t happened in Joseph, Oregon. The number of people who live in this tiny berg in the northeast corner of the state has remained steady. But WHO they are has changed drastically. The town was once filled with blue collar families. Now Joseph is home to rich retirees and bronze artisans. In part four of our series on towns in transition, Correspondent Anna King has this intimate portrait of a family that?s lived through the change.
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Joseph, Oregon: From beams to bronze
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You?d think the population would plummet when a town loses three sawmills. But that hasn?t happened in Joseph, Oregon. The number of people who live in this tiny berg in the northeast corner of the state has remained steady. But WHO they are has changed drastically. The town was once filled with blue collar families. Now Joseph is home to rich retirees and bronze artisans. In part four of our series on towns in transition, Correspondent Anna King has this intimate portrait of a family that?s lived through the change.
BACKANNOUNCE: Tomorrow in the final installment in our series on Northwest communities re-inventing themselves, we go to Idaho?s Silver Valley, where mining towns are forging a future in outdoor recreation.
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