Here is an article I did for Julie Ardery’s Human Flower Project.

See also–for news and commentary about rural life in America–the website edited by Julie Ardery and her husband, Bill Bishop (the author of THE BIG SORT: WHY THE CLUSTERING OF LIKE-MINDED AMERICA IS TEARING US APART), called the Daily Yonder. There is stuff here that your daily newspaper (thinning daily) routinely ignores.