Happening to the american small town and what time the town is being invaded. The invaders are not enemies, but friends. American people from the farms, the mountains, the faraway cities and villages they pour into the town wash through its streets and into its houses and churches and, meeting places. The town flooded and overwhelmed. It was meant to be a living space for 5 to 10000 people. 20,000, 30,000, 40,000 people. Roll into it, double up in its houses and camp on its outskirts. The new people have come here to work in the shipyard, in the machine shops and small factories. They work hard under the 90 degrees sun and the electric oven, heat of the steel bulkhead, the heavy work and the small, exacting, precise work. Then they come off the ship. A friendly, good natured army. But an army almost without organization. The Small Community is overwhelmed. Every power plant pumping station and Grocery Store pushed to the limit. They stand in line at the post office, sending money home to the cities and the hill farms. They line up with their laundry. In three weeks, they may get it back. Lunch counters jammed up. People are being turned away from the diner. They swim on schedule. The lifeguards herd them out working in shifts and swimming in fifth. Some new housing has been put up. Its comfortable, but the people havent been able to get together yet. They live in their separate cells. People need other people. They need a get together, a little fun, a little swapping of talk and goodwill. They want to feel that they belong. The new community, the community of towns, people and new people. Has not yet been built. The people must build it themselves. All the people they jam into the juke joint play pool when theyd rather be playing baseball. One shift and then another ship with nothing much in between. Sometimes it gets to be too much. They decide to try another town. This is another town. A town where the people are doing something about it. The town is sylacauga. This town has the same problem. It had the same boredom and lassitude. People were always thinking about getting out of it. Now they change their mind. Theyre doing something about it. Theyre getting together. The mayor, the city manager, the Civic Leaders and Army Officers from the nearby post people from the plant. A man from the division of recreation of the United States federal security agency. Hes seen this problem before. He knows how to help people get it in hand. But the people must do it themselves. They are doing it. They hand up rooms and boarding places for the newcomers and. The. They hold a get together at the church. The local police help out as guides and advisers. The women with clubs begin to organize things. They clean up the town pool. Tennis, Red Cross Work in the rec sports are good for people. And the Red Cross Work is essential. But the main thing is to get people together, cooperate, eating with each other, working together, playing together a new community is being born. America and have been making new communities for 300 year. And in these community quadruples under the colonial candles of williamsburg. Thus the hoedown in the new pioneer towns of kentucky square dances in the middle, the kansas cornfield miners romping together in the California Gold town. Recreation hall games instead of shooting matches. Nutrition programs instead of recipe swapping. But the impulse is the same. The tradition is the same same. Storytelling and play acting and music. The boys and girls band, they hit it on the beat and take it on down the the. The children dancing and speaking pieces. The mothers. Fathers looking on. And they remember. The barn dances to Davy Crockett and abe lincoln kick their heels and these dances. The americans havent forgotten how pop goes. Weasel and turkey wing and the soldiers. Real. One community did this one town full of people who belonged there and people who wanted to belong made a new community. Other towns are doing it everywhere in america. Americans finding out how to together all over again. A good thing in wartime and a good thing afterwards. Now they have a life in. Now they have something to look forward to. Nobody needs to be walled off or bored or lonely. They go back to work. Every man on the ship to the neighbor and a friend. Every man on the ship knows that he belong