Katherine Wells
Katherine Wells is the executive producer of podcasts at The Atlantic.
She's also done work with The New Yorker Radio Hour, Radiolab's More Perfect, Freakonomics Radio, and Gimlet Media's Every Little Thing.
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When you enter Wellington, Texas, one of the first things you see is a large billboard that says: Welcome to Wellington: Great Past, Bright Future.
Can you believe there were this many things on top of the ground? Some of them have been worked and are beautiful.
This hour: we explore two struggling Texas towns through the beautiful and mournful voices of those who remain.
When police showed up to question John Thompson, he was worried that he had sold drugs to an undercover cop.