“Middletown” is getting another look, in a widely read U.K. newspaper series assaying the mood of the country from Muncie. We talk with history Professor James Connolly, director of the Center for Middletown Studies at Ball State University and co-author of “What Middletown Read: Print Culture in an American Small City.”
(Photo: Employees outside Warner Gear in the 1960s, from Ball State University Libraries)
Music used in this show:
Everyday People – Sly & The Family Stone
Small Town (Acoustic Version), by John Mellencamp
Time Has Come Today, by the Chambers Brothers