Your story is America's story.
Muncie, Indiana has been a national bellwether for life in America's hometowns for 100 years.
In 2025, what is a good life in Muncie, Indiana?
Together with the Center for Middletown Studies, the Facing Project is working with the people and partners of Muncie to build a time capsule of unvarnished first-person histories, one story at a time, and explore and archive the honest lives of Muncie's people and places in 2025
through the community-chosen documentary: 'Facing Middletown', produced with award-winning screenwriter Rani Deighe-Crowe.
Become a part of Muncie's history. Share your story.
There are three big ways to participate in 'Facing Middletown'.
Go on the record
Show up to our community callout sessions throughout Muncie, participate in documentary interviews, ask and answer important unanswered to examine Muncie's footprint in 2025.
Become a writer or storyteller
Do you have something to say about life in Muncie? Tell Muncie's story by understanding and sharing someone else's.
Become a storyteller or writer using the Facing Project's empathy-building model.
Become a Middletown Documenter
Uncover the stories hiding in plain sight: contribute your own video clips and photographs; ask questions and invite curiosity into your places and lives.
We believe the people of Muncie have a say in their own story.
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About us
'Facing Middletown' is dedicated to preserving and acknowledging the history of Middletown, USA through storytelling, community events, and demystifying research to connect with fostering a sense of belonging.