Muncie as Middletown, USA

We are asking folks in Muncie about their lives and places 100 years into Muncie's identity as Middletown, USA

We ask: 

When someone asks about life in Muncie, what do you tell them?

What is a good life in your place?

What allows you to live this life? What is standing in your way?

What are the questions that will help researchers understand you and your community?

What images would you use to represent life in Muncie?

What do you want to see this project produce?

What do you wish people knew about Muncie, but don’t?

What do you think, hope, or worry about happening to Muncie, 100 years from now?

Go on the record.

Answer any one of these Muncie prompts (or as many as you would like) in a blog post about life in Muncie from where you stand,  today.

We'll share, in your own words. 

For former Muncie residents who've moved away:

What do you miss the most about Muncie? 

And/or... What don't you miss?  

Do you have your own questions? 

Contact our editor- Aimee Robertson-West or submit story idea to facingmiddletown@facingproject.com 

Thanks!

Remembering Flo Lapin

Editor's note: Facing Middletown, the documentary and the book which are both underway, explores life in Muncie, Indiana in 2025, as representative city Middletown, USA as a 100-year mile marker of the Middletown Studies. 

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