“So I’m going to have a copy of this play put in the cornerstone and the people a thousand years from now’ll know a few simple facts about us.” Our Town is used as the text in a Common Core exemplar that examines the dramatic and theatrical aspects of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning drama. Class members are challenged to examine how Wilder uses dialogue to develop meaning rather than lighting, props, and scenery. (“There’s some scenery for those who think they have to have scenery”).