A Portrait of a Town - Willimantic USA

Riverside Drive, Willimantic Ct

The Portrait of a Town

Willimantic, USA

The Portrait of a Town – Willimantic USA is a photo and digital media project exploring the story about a small city with a big personality, Willimantic, Connecticut. Willimantic was built out of industry, and grew to become one of Connecticut’s wealthiest cities. Now almost 30 years have passed since Willimantic’s main economic engine, the American Thread Company, closed its doors, leaving Willimantic with a large economic deficit. This story is about post industrial America, localized in a 5-square-mile slice of eastern Connecticut. Still a depressed community, Willimantic is now growing into the shadow of what it once was. True to the spirit of social media, I welcome anybody to help contribute to this story about the fabric of a community that is diverse and independent.

Taken from the introduction, The Portrait of a Town - Willimantic USA

A Portrait of a Town is one of the few quality informational  sites featuring Willimantic on the web. Gregory Hartzell, its proprietor,chooses topics, many of which, we are familiar with but know little about. He brings stuff to life. A Main Street barber shop, a town bureaucrat, a former hot dog stand turned rib purveyor. Just the tip of what Willimantic is about. Beautiful photography, superlative prose  If Portrait of a Town was a book, it would be on your coffee table.

Portrait of a Town keeps a low profile
Bookmark it, we have:
http://www.theportraitofatown.com/