The town of Gander, Newfoundland, has six traffic lights and a population of less than thirteen thousand. Snowmobiling is popular, and people leave their car doors unlocked while they're at the grocery store. Its distinguishing feature"and the reason it exists"is its airport, which opened in 1938 and was once the largest in the world, making Gander a crucial transatlantic refuelling stop in the days before long-range…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 12:00AM on March 20, 2017