Artisans transform one small town’s economy

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By Sam BlissJul 9, 2015, 3:37 pm128 pts
Sam Bliss is traveling from Seattle to London by bicycle and boat. Read the intro to his travels here. Tieton, Wash. — population 1,200 — sits on a plateau just above the Yakima Valley. A decade ago, it was just another economically depressed American farm town, one more victim of the corporatization of…

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