The phrase "an open town" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a town that is accessible or welcoming, often in a historical or military context.
Example: "During the war, the general declared the city an open town to prevent further destruction."
Alternatives: "a free town" or "a welcoming town".
As a young man he played in clubs in Cincinnati and across the Ohio river in Newport, Kentucky, then an "open town" full of casinos.
It straddles Yesler Way, long a nexus for all things sinful and battleground between proponents of an "open town" and those hoping to suppress vice.
The event will include a reading of the speech itself, panel discussions with prominent members of the theater community and Princeton faculty Jill Dolan and Brian Herrera, and an open town hall discussion.
Though Tom Price is now considered an open town, Rio Tinto still owns nearly 1,000 of the town's 1,300 houses and supplies the residents with electricity, Mr. Softley said.
Judge Christopher F. Droney suggested at the hearing that the president's personal Twitter account operated by a private company was akin to the government leasing a privately owned auditorium to host an open town hall meeting, where free speech protections for dissenters would still apply.
The lack of female figures in the picture gives this an Elks club meeting feel rather than an open town meeting.
In 2009, during Barack Obama's first visit to China — at a time when his Administration was seeking Chinese coöperation on climate change, Iran, and North Korea — he nonetheless held an open town-hall forum with Chinese students in Shanghai.
Sometimes citizens were asked to attend a cabildo abierto (open town meeting) on important matters.
"He made a case for the possibility of gay politics," said Nan Alamilla Boyd, whose 2003 book "Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965" includes a chapter on Sarria.
As recounted by historian Nan Alamilla Boyd in Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965, TGSF grew into "a marketplace of activity that, in order to protect itself, evolve(d) into a social movement".
John McCain is usually the candidate getting heckled and interrupted on the trail, a product of his open town halls but also the more controversial aspects of his foreign policy.
