Whether it’s arts and entertainment, food, or recreation, the Daily Yonder is dedicated to highlighting the richness of life in rural communities. For the latest on rural culture and what’s happening across rural America, keep it locked here.
People You Meet: the Motherway Family and Mr. D’s Food Center
“We’re in the people business…We just happen to sell groceries.”
More Rural Life
Legal Assistance Pilot Program Helps Rural Victims of Domestic Violence and Abuse in Utah
The new initiative will give advocates the ability to file protective orders on behalf of abuse victims.
Commentary: The Rural Church in Changing Communities
Rural churches are a precious space where long-term residents and newcomers can work together to create a shared vision for the future of their small communities.
Commentary: In Defense of Hunting
“A good deal of…perception of hunting is caricature, born from a lack of understanding and fed by the propaganda of a techno-culture at war with both the natural world and those who would take part of their living from outside the market” – A writer and a hunter argues why we may need hunting more than we realize.
Commentary: The Music of Pandemics and Epidemics
The sorrow of an opioid epidemic happening in tandem with a global pandemic is communicated poignantly by musicians often playing “three chords and the truth.”
Palmer’s House of Toys
Kids have their own way of judging what’s real, and it’s not necessarily based on the cost of the Santa suit. Here’s a Christmas memory from 1968, when Hazard, Kentucky, had three Santas — but only one would do. (This is a republication of a Daily Yonder holiday favorite).
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Travel and REcreation
Viewfinder: Rural PHotography
Rural By Choice: Cool People and Places
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Accidental Rancher: ‘The Deeper Sorrow Carves into Your Being, the More Joy You Can Contain’
Eliza Blue finds a hopeful light flickering at the tail end of this year.
45 Degrees North: Of Crystal Balls and Christmas Trees
It takes some Rudolph-level optimism to look into the fog of Christmases Yet To Come and decide how many Christmas trees to plant for sales a decade in the future.
45 Degrees North: What You Should Know About Telehealth
For rural families, remote health care may be more accessible than you think. Here are some ways to prepare your family for telehealth.
Local Lore: Kentucky Cryptid Researcher Wonders if Mysterious Structures Could Be Bigfoot Graves
The growing list of evidence composed of footprints and curious mounds and stick structures made the local investigator ask whether Kentucky’s Bigfoot bury their dead.
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