The landscape of recovery in rural America is “a story of small victories and people who won’t give up on their neighbors.”
Posted inTravel/Recreation
Rural Byways Perfect for a Springtime Cruise
Does spring make you yearn for the open road? These four rural road trips feature iconic America: along a craggy coast, deep into a preserved Jurassic-era past, through a remnant of tall grass prairie, and up and over an Appalachian bald. A Whale of a Trip: Strait of Juan de Fuca Scenic Byway, Washington Washington’s […]
Posted inRural Economy
Q&A: What’s Going on in Walmart’s Homeland?
Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you see here? You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article and receive more conversations like this in your inbox each week. […]
Posted inMedia
Ozarks Notebook: A New Chapter for Small-Town Missouri Newspaper
Marlene DeClue was heading home after her second radiation treatment for cancer when she decided to pull over and buy the Greenfield Vedette. It wasn’t, however, just one copy of the newspaper she pulled from a newsstand on the street. It was more than 150 years of them, which instead of tucked under her arm, […]
Posted inEducation, Rural Life
Rural Florida Education Centers Address Language Barriers, Education Gaps
Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in Mile Markers, a twice monthly newsletter from Open Campus about the role of colleges in rural America. You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article to receive future editions in your inbox. “Here’s how I describe Hendry County to anybody who is thinking about […]
Posted inArts and Culture
A Rural Calling: The Rural Arts Collaborative
Hiromi Katayama had been in the U.S. for less than a year, studying for an MFA in art at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania, when she happened upon a cherry blossom tree near her studio. She’d been questioning the decision to leave her native Japan. Katayama says her education in the arts in Japan was very […]
Posted inEnvironment
‘Rural Folks Are Anti-Environmentalism’ and Other Lies
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Like what you see? Join the mailing list for more rural news, thoughts, and analysis in your inbox each week. Every so often, I encounter a capital-E environmentalist – someone with an environmental academic degree and a job at one […]
Posted inRural Life
Commentary: Innovation Is Rural
Rural America is teeming with innovation, opportunity, and solutions to many flawed economic policies. And it always has been. Counter to the common narrative of the decline of all things rural, both history and experience tell a different story. Because necessity is the mother of invention, rural America has always been and continues to be, […]
Posted inBroadband and Technology
Rural Students’ Access to Wi-Fi is in Jeopardy as Pandemic-Era Resources Recede
This story was originally published by The Conversation. Students in rural America still lack access to high-speed internet at home despite governmental efforts during the pandemic to fill the void. This lack of access negatively affects their academic achievement and overall well-being. The situation has been getting worse as the urgency of the pandemic has […]
Posted inHealth
Rural Communities Face Primary Care Physician Shortage
A new study from the American Academy of Family Physicians’ Robert Graham Center (AAFP), co-funded by the Milbank Memorial Fund and The Physicians Foundation, has found that communities across the country are struggling to meet the demand for primary care physicians, as well as to retain those physicians in their communities. While it’s difficult all […]
Posted inHealth
Doctors Take On Dental Duties to Reach Low-Income and Uninsured Patients
This story was originally published by KFF Health News. Pediatrician Patricia Braun and her team saw roughly 100 children at a community health clinic on a recent Monday. They gave flu shots and treatments for illnesses like ear infections. But Braun also did something most primary care doctors don’t. She peered inside mouths searching for […]