In Qezelabad, the Hazara ghost town, a lone man recently rode through the snow on a horse.
Will Kane Gary Cooperr), squaring up to Frank Miller's gang in "High Noon", is a lone hero "protecting the town from the scum of the universe".
Challerhocker (say it "holler-hocker"), a gorgeous conjuration of macadamia nuts, caramelized onion and butterscotch, was invented a decade ago by a lone producer in a tiny Swiss town.
Patricia Carlon, about whom more in a moment, has the makings here of a typically violence-spattered story of voyeurism, in which a lone creep terrorizes an entire town in the course of a single evening.
Ann-Marie Ljungberg's Simone de Beauvoirs hjärta told the story of a group of well-educated but marginalized single mothers, while Eva Adolfsson's hero in Förvandling was a pregnant woman wandering the streets of her small town as a lone seeker of existential meaning.
In the same state that is developing self-driving cars, there's the rugged landscape of Trinity County, where a large share of residents heat their homes with wood, plaques commemorate stagecoach routes and the county seat, Weaverville, is an old gold-mining town with a lone blinking stop-and-go traffic light.
Emerging as the logistical hub for natural gas exploration and for future pipeline construction in the Canadian Arctic, Inuvik has long been a town where a lone stoplight regulates traffic in front of a Roman Catholic church shaped like an igloo.
There's a lone mint farmer outside a town called Lashkagar, which lots of journalists get taken to.
Wandering through the western wilds in his exile, a lone traveller solving mysteries and righting wrongs from town to town, in search of justice, truth, and perhaps… himself.
On February 15th police took away a lone monk who protested in the town of Litang in Sichuan.
A visit to the world of James Casebere evokes the opening credits of Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice," where the camera glides over a quiet town, arriving at a lone house on a hill.
