When calamity strikes, as it often has in the Appalachian community of Swannanoa, North Carolina, the “proud, fierce, and maybe a little crazy” working ...

An Montezuma School to Farm Project AmeriCorps member teaches a math focused garden class to students. (Photo courtesy of Sorrell Redford) On Friday, April 25, Sorrell Redford, education director for ...

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Early one late March morning, Farmworker activist and union leader Alfredo Juarez Zeferino was taking his partner to her job ...

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From isolated mansions to eerie mountains, the backdrop of rural Vermont inspires the bestselling crime novels of author Eric Rickstad.

For about a century – from after the Civil War through, in some places, the 1960s or so – one-room education was the bedrock of rural Ozarks communities.

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When she started her search for a house, Amy Balicki didn't set out to buy a Sears kit home in Downers Grove, Illinois – but she probably should have.