Wed 11/16 @ 7PM
It’s no secret that many small towns have been hollowed out by giant box stores (and now dollar stores) opening on their outskirts. Many little downtowns, lined with locally owned small businesses, sit empty. All of that was going on years before Covid hit, which added additional challenges.
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Gary Ravlin, a former New York Times reporter, explores the fate of these small businesses in his new book, Saving Main Street: Small Business in the Time of COVID-19. In it, he tracks a number of these businesses for 18 months from the onset of the pandemic to document the challenges they faced from new shopping habits, contradictory government policies and big-box stores.
Ravlin will be the guest of the Hudson Library & Historical Society for a virtual streaming author talk. It’s free but you must register. Go here.