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Can't You See The Sun's Settin' Down On Our Town?: Decline, Space, And Community In Frisco City, Alabama, Mary Amelia Taylor Jan 2011

Can't You See The Sun's Settin' Down On Our Town?: Decline, Space, And Community In Frisco City, Alabama, Mary Amelia Taylor

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This study examines the physical and social decline of Frisco City, a small town in southwest Alabama, and its residents' associations with changing spaces and communities in the downtown area and the Frisco City school. It includes a rephotography project hosted on a website and a short documentary film that demonstrate the changes in the downtown physical environment and residents' ties to its spaces. The group of residents interviefor the study seemed to view the declining downtown area and school as signifiers of their declining community; the economic, social, and physical changes in the town's later history seemed to be …