ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Victoria Schalk, 22, left, and Melinda Blais, 27, right, share a traditional Somali meal with college classmate Nasteho Issa, 21, at restaurant and market opened by one of the first Somali families who settled in 2001 in Lewiston, Maine, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. The population had plummeted in 2001 as the paper mills closed. Downtown storefronts sat boarded up, ringed by sagging apartment buildings no longer needed to house workers since so few remained. The refugees saw possibility in Lewiston's decay. Word spread quickly and friends and families followed, by the hundreds. The town morphed in a matter of months into a laboratory for what happens when demographics and culture suddenly shift. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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