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The Model City - Blast to Present (Paperback)
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The Model City - Blast to Present (Paperback)
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Henry Grady, who turned the Atlanta Constitution into a nationally
prominent publication in a few short years, is credited with giving
Anniston's newspaper its maiden name, The Hot Blast. The
inspiration, we're told, came when Grady, in Anniston for a visit
to this model city, noted the sparks shooting out from the company
town's foundry. "Hot Blast" seemed like a nifty handle for a paper
covering northeast Alabama. On Aug. 18, 2008, The Anniston Star,
the descendant of The Hot Blast, celebrated its 125th birthday. The
paper was not alone in hitting the big 1-2-5. In early July, the
city of Anniston marked 125 years of existence. The Star has
created something we believe worthy of the anniversary. The book is
a compilation of five special newspaper sections examining The
Model City's history and its future. It looks backwards, to Samuel
Noble and Daniel Tyler's grand experiment at creating a different
sort of company town, one that treated workers fairly, established
a foundation for a high-functioning community and aspired to lift
the South from its post-war doldrums. This book aims to extract
lessons from our past that can be applied to our future. The
authors do this because we believes a community can't know where
it's going until it's sure of where it's been. We hope you will
find The Model City informative and challenging, as bracing as the
whoosh of warm air blowing out of an iron furnace.
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