With the epidemic still burning through the country and public trust in the media at an all time low, rural journalists struggle with added pressures and mental stress of the new and dangerous reality they help cover in the news. On a typical day, a council meeting in a cramped […]
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Early on the morning of August 26, 1920, a stack of documents arrived by train to Washington, D.C. The papers had left Tennessee the day before, among them, the official ratification document of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Around 8 a.m. in the quiet of his home, Secretary […]
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The agencies and churches that would normally help are already stretched thin by the pandemic, says one nonprofit administrator. With federal unemployment benefits ending soon and moratoriums on evictions soon to follow, social services organizations are bracing for a homelessness crisis to hit rural Americans. Adrienne Bush, executive director for […]
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A Kentucky jail has pulled incarcerated workers off litter patrol and put them behind sewing machines, cranking out masks to help stop the spread of COVID-19 in the small, central Kentucky community. The mask-making program at the Woodford County Detention Center is helping both the region and the jail population, […]
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Lots of ingenuity and a generous donation allowed the community of Paducah, Kentucky, to build their own free COVID-19 testing center. A corporate wellness director, an anonymous donor, a fishing tournament weigh-in trailer and an empty church with a large parking lot – not exactly what you’d think would make […]
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The stretch of U.S. 23 in Kentucky from Ashland to Louisa is littered with Christian churches – Methodist, Church of Christ, Baptist, Nazarene – and on a recent Sunday, the drive down the winding, rural highway showed parking lots in some places littered with cars, just until services let out only […]
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