The Towns
Sixty-three provinces and states, listed the way a motel lists its amenities: alphabetically, in full, without enthusiasm. Every one of them is open, and every one of them is a link.
63 openNot yet drawn — tell us the town
- Alabamafootball, and a quiet confidence about the footballOPEN
- Alaskaeverything is further away than it looks on the mapOPEN
- Albertaflat in a way that becomes impressive around hour fourOPEN
- Arizonaa dry heat, which people will explain to youOPEN
- Arkansasdiamonds in a public field, genuinely, go digOPEN
- Californiathe parts of it nobody makes a movie aboutOPEN
- Coloradoa mountain town for every possible budgetOPEN
- Connecticuta long history of being on the way to somewhere elseOPEN
- Idahopotatoes, and a great deal of unbothered wildernessOPEN
- Illinoiscorn, and one city that ignores the cornOPEN
- Indianaa basketball hoop on every garage, unironicallyOPEN
- Iowathe state fair is genuinely the highlight and that is fineOPEN
- Kansasfamously flat, actually rolling, nobody checksOPEN
- Kentuckybourbon, horses, and caves you did not expectOPEN
- Mainelobster, fog, and a short but sincere summerOPEN
- Manitobatwo seasons, both of them committed to the bitOPEN
- Marylandcrabs, and strong feelings about the seasoningOPEN
- Massachusettsevery town claims a first of somethingOPEN
- Michigansurrounded by fresh water and quietly smug about itOPEN
- Minnesotaten thousand lakes, most of them unvisitedOPEN
- Mississippithe blues started here and never entirely leftOPEN
- Missourithe middle of everything, on the way to all of itOPEN
- Montanathe sky is doing most of the workOPEN
- Nebraskaa sandhill crane migration nobody talks about enoughOPEN
- Nevadathe ninety-eight percent that is not the StripOPEN
- New Brunswickcovered bridges and a river that reverses, sincerelyOPEN
- New Hampshiregranite, autumn, and a motto that means itOPEN
- New Jerseya diner every four miles and no bad onesOPEN
- New Mexicogreen or red, and the correct answer is bothOPEN
- New Yorkthe enormous upstate that the postcards forgotOPEN
- Newfoundland and Labradorthe friendliest people and the worst weather, in that orderOPEN
- North Carolinamountains on one end, sandbars on the otherOPEN
- North Dakotathe least visited state, which is a kind of recordOPEN
- Northwest Territoriesmore lake than land, and nobody mindsOPEN
- Nova Scotiafog with a strong sense of its own historyOPEN
- Nunavutthe largest territory, the fewest opinions about itOPEN
- Ohiothe birthplace of an implausible number of astronautsOPEN
- Oklahomawind, and a general agreement about the windOPEN
- Ontarioa great many towns and one city that gets all the mailOPEN
- Oregonsomeone will pump your gas and rain on your paradeOPEN
- Pennsylvaniasmall towns with enormous churches and better pretzelsOPEN
- Prince Edward Islandred dirt, potatoes, one very famous orphanOPEN
- Saskatchewanthe horizon, available in every directionOPEN
- South Carolinaporches engineered for sitting and nothing elseOPEN
- South Dakotaa mountain with faces and a lot of prairieOPEN
- Tennesseemusic towns, and the towns that supply the musiciansOPEN
- Texaslarge, and in no hurry to let that go unmentionedOPEN
- Vermontmaple syrup and a firm stance against billboardsOPEN
- Virginiaa historical marker for approximately every fieldOPEN