FAYETTEVILLE: Author captures culture of region
Tells tales of Wal-Mart, others
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Marjorie Rosen signs copies of her book Boom Town: How Wal-Mart Transformed an All-American Town into an International Community after speaking Wednesday at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Multicultural Center inside the Arkansas Union.
Photo by William Moore
The rapid expansion of Northwest Arkansas’ population serves as a portrait of social change that will become more common as corporations continue to transform America’s small towns, author Marjorie Rosen said Wednesday.
“It’s amazing,” she said of the diversity that corporate recruiting at companies like Wal-Mart brought to the region. “It’s fascinating. It’s changing the nature of small town America.”
Rosen, an associate journalism professor at Lehman College-CUNY, spoke to a group of University of Arkansas at Fayetteville students on a promotional tour for her book Boom Town: How Wal-Mart Transformed An All-American Town into an International Community.
Through her writing, Rosen paints a picture of Bentonville and its surrounding communities as a region whose small-town ...
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Northwest Arkansas, Pages 9 on 11/05/2009
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