Hey folks, we're excited to share a preview of a new podcast series we think you'll enjoy.

It's called Cement City. Cement City tells the true story of a little broken downtown at a precipice.

Donara, Pennsylvania, population 4,650.

The town has no schools, no banks, no grocery stores, no gas stations.

It has a smog museum, and a mayor named Piglet,

narrator and writer Jean Marie and her friend with the microphone, Aaron, arrive in town at a pivotal moment.

Donara has hit bottom, but there's hope for the first time since the steel mill left 50 years ago.

Something might be moving into town instead of leaving it.

And there's an unlikely cast of flawed heroes

and rainy day optimists

who are determined to make it happen and save their town.

Cement City is an Odyssey original podcast in partnership with Cement City Productions

and it's available now on the Odyssey app or wherever you listen to your

podcast. Did you know that there is actually a band, a local Pittsburgh band called Donora. They were driving down the highway and they seen the sign for

Danora and they said, hmm, that sounds like a really cool name.

What's that? I love that band. I think I like you.

I'm sure I'm sure I do.

I don't remember the other words to it.

A few years ago I pulled off the highway into a dying town I'd never heard of.

It was just one of those exit signs I'd always whiz pass on my way to someplace else and I was

curious. I brought my friend Aaron. She

brought our microphone. We came here with one burning question. What's it like to

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