Photos: Rethinking a Company Town
Joe Mershon, photographed Nov. 10., 2013, outside the Rainy Lake Visitor Center, is actively involved in promoting Voyageurs National Park events and other activities in the International Falls area.
Derek Montgomery for MPR News
The Daily Circuit's Tom Weber joined MPR News' Ground Level team in International Falls earlier this week, talking to residents and visiting everything from a high school class to deer-hunting shacks.
The town of 6,400 people felt the blow this fall of several hundred job cuts at the mainstay paper mill. Residents are examining how they might forge a future different from the past.
Full coverage of this series can be found at: Rethinking a Company Town
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