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Myron Skinner, 81, stands outside his home in Irasburg. Since suffering a stroke 11 years ago, he has been able to handle only a few odd jobs around town. One of them is removing the American flags from the graves of veterans at the Irasburg…

Warren Burnor plays during recess at the Star School, one of for one-room schoolhouses in Walden. All have since closed, and the students have moved into a new elementary school. Many in town considered the schoolhouses a badge of honor and source of…

David and Leah Kittridge both suffer from emphysema. 'Everyone smokes up here,' says Leah. I remember bottle pickin' so we didn't have to roll our own when I was in the hospital having my first baby.' he unemployed Derby couple, too proud to go on…

Harold Rock stares from one of his junk cars. He once spent a night in jail in Barton because of his repeated refusal to conform to the town's zoning laws. He eventually move his family and his junk across the town line into Irasburg.

Ronald rock , 14, sorts cans from his father's junkyard in Irasburg, in preparation for a trip to the redemption center. The family was short on money so he collected cans to bring in a little cash.

many small western towns rank three times the state average for teen pregnancies. After delivering her second child at 19, Jennifer Roldan says, 'When I was 14, I couldn't even hold a baby doll in my arms without crying I wanted a real one so bad.'

Arrested 39 times by the age of 11, Chevy Van Pickup gets a welcome-home headlock from his mother's friend Bill Chase on Christmas Eve. The state's juvenile system allowed him to spend the day with his family before returning to the facility for…

On the way home from the hospital, 18-year-old Tammy Gagnon lights up a cigarette following surgery after a miscarriage. She smoked a pack a day during her pregnancy and survives with her father on his disability check for depression.

Four-year-old Johnny De St. Pierre sleeps every afternoon because he's awake all night with nightmares. Sexually and physical abused by his parents, he now lives with his aunt.

Four generations live in Donna tanner's home, supported only by her husband's paycheck from McDonalds. Thieves have already siphoned gas out of his car three times this winter, forcing Bob Tanner to walk the 22 miles to work.