Gospel and Crockett: building on a small town’s cultural heritage

<p>In this Global Local Podcast episode, your host, Ingrid Koehler, gives you a taste of her hometown as she interviews Blake Lay, the mayor of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee.</p> <p>As the ‘birthplace of Southern Gospel’ and the home of an annual festival, Mayor Lay talks about how cultural heritage and a thriving performing arts scene helps a small town support economic prosperity. In a rural area with few educational opportunities and a declining industrial base, Mayor Lay outlines how they even brought a new university campus and redesigned an old, enormous factory into an ‘industrial mall’.</p> <p><a href="https://lgiu.org/workstream/global-local-recap/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>More information on the Global Local Recap</strong></a><strong> and how to sign up - for free!</strong></p>