Amid the rolling hills and strip-mined mountain tops that stretch through Logan County, West Virginia is Route 10 — a newer highway that was 20 years in the making. It made road travel in southern West Virginia more accessible, but it also replaced the McDonald airfield. And like most airports […]
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Art has been my close companion since I was a child. What began as a simple dance class evolved with time to become an integral part of my identity; it is always with great pride that I share I am an artist. Its involvement in my life has grown with […]
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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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Recording plays, rehearsing online, canceling entire seasons. Theaters in rural America adapt to a surging pandemic. In a community theater in Athens, Tennessee, a cast filmed itself performing Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” without masks, and immediately donned them once more when the director said “cut.” On a 105-acre dairy farm in Ashfield, […]
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Though employment is still down across the board, rural recreation counties are bouncing back from the pandemic faster than urban ones. In Haywood County, North Carolina, small businesses face their challenges with determination and passion. When all non-essential businesses in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, were forced to shut down for […]
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In a quiet neighborhood in southeast Ohio, Talcon Quinn and her 12-year-old apprentice Juniper Ballew have revived an age-old tradition with just three ingredients: a deer skin, some water and a handful of animal brains. They have transformed a hairy, fleshy animal skin into buckskin, a buttery soft material stronger […]
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