Independent Lens

26 Season
510 Episode

Independent Lens - Season 4 Episode 4 Downside Up


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60 minutes 2024 HD

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Since the 1980s, the rural working class town of North Adams, Massachusetts, has struggled to kick-start its economy following the mill closings. This program explores how, with the 1999 opening of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the town has united its blue collar base with visionaries from the art world to reinvent itself in the post-industrial economy.

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