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Museum on Main Street
August 23 @ 5:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Museum on Main Street
Friday, Aug. 23
The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street exhibit Crossroads: Change in Rural America (Crossroads) opens on Friday, Aug. 23, at the Saint Albans Museum, with an opening reception on Saturday, 5-8:30 p.m. Crossroads explores how rural American communities changed in the 20th century. Since 1900, the percentage of Americans living in rural areas dropped from 60 percent to 17 percent. See some ways that rural Americans responded to this remarkable societal change.