Jul 15, 2021
7 hrs ago
Award-winning journalists and bestselling authors James and Deborah Fallows will be the featured speakers at the West Virginia Humanities Councilâs annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities, presented on Thursday, Oct. 21. The event returns this year after a hiatus due to Covid in 2020.
The Fallows are the creative minds behind the new HBO documentary âOur Towns,â which is drawn from their 2018 New York Times bestselling book Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America. In the film, which premiered on April 13, the couple revisit eight of the towns across America that were featured in the book â including Charleston, West Virginia. While in Charleston, the Fallows spoke with local entrepreneurs, community leaders, and artists for an in-depth profile of the cityâs present-day character and culture.