Small Town Expert Hits the Road

Farmington resident and West Hartford businessman Bart Russell loves America’s small towns, all 34,000 of them. So much so that he spent 36 years as one of the nation’s most prominent spokesmen and advocate for “little towns,” those with populations of less than 30,000. He worked as CEO of the National Association of Towns, president of its National Center for Small Communities and was former head of the CT Council of Small Towns. But now he has a new project. He has established “Everything Small Town” a kind of online, one-stop center for everything and anything to do with small towns across the nation. And as part of that, he and his wife, Rorie, are heading out Sunday for their first “Discover Small Town American Tour.” ...

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