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Profiles of villages and small towns that transformed themselves into thriving destinations, and what Daingean could learn.

Broadway, the main street of Reefton, New Zealand, at dusk, with heritage-style street lamps and strings of lights over the road, timber shopfronts and bush-covered hills behind

Reefton: How a Small Mining Town Lit Up Its Future

Reefton, a small gold town on New Zealand’s West Coast, nearly faded when its mines closed. Here is how locals turned the 1888 electric lights, a heritage main street and a community-owned distillery into a reason to visit, and what Daingean could learn from it.

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Broadway, the main street of Reefton, New Zealand, at dusk, with heritage-style street lamps and strings of lights over the road, timber shopfronts and bush-covered hills behind

Reefton: How a Small Mining Town Lit Up Its Future

Reefton, a small gold town on New Zealand’s West Coast, nearly faded when its mines closed. Here is how locals turned the 1888 electric lights, a heritage main street and a community-owned distillery into a reason to visit, and what Daingean could learn from it.

Read More