Wondering how Mapping Main Street came to be?  Turns out it’s one part lots of hard work, plus one great opportunity, add several friends and colleagues to guide you, plus creative problem solving and you get something much larger than you could ever hope for, something 10,466 streets large.

Learn much more by checking out this short essay by Mapping Main Street’s Kara Oehler she wrote for the Association for Independence in Radio (AIR).

You can learn even more about the public radio system and other exciting creative media projects in this article from Current-the newspaper about public TV and radio in the US.

Huma Yusuf shares how her understanding of political discourse changed through her travels in America and the discovery of Mapping Main Street. Yusuf discovers the stark differences between “Main Street USA” and the Main Street of her native Pakistan.  Mapping Main Street becomes the doorway that provides thoughtful observations on identity politics.