small towns
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 29, 2011 - 4:17 pm
Photo by Flickr user tlindenbaum.
Rural areas are going the way of the dodo, if you believe yesterday's Associated Press story about "the decline of small-town America." The article begins with a stark statistic from the 2010 Census:
Rural America now... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010 - 10:37 am
The town of Ellenville in Ulster County. Photo by Flickr user Karen Blumberg.
Earlier this month, the Daily Yonder, the blog about rural issues, published an interview with three experts on small towns: Bart Finzel, Jane Leonard, and Dave Engstrom. While... Read more