Photograph by Irit Reinheimer
AWOL is a love story. It is a rural love story,
and a lesbian love story, and a story about the choices that young people in
this country have – and don’t have.
These lines accompany the Kickstarter camp…
Category Archives: Art, Poetry and Musings
What If All The Natural Gas In The United States Was In Urban America?
Photograph by Les Stone
An open question for consideration: suppose that the United States’ massive natural gas reserves were located exclusively beneath urban sites. Would these regions encounter hydraulic fracturing? Would the practice exponenti…
Honey and Sustainability in Rural Nepal
Here is a new dispatch considering rural – international connections, where sustainability and food security meet, raising the
quality of life and illustrating to rural youth how prosperity could be
under their noses, or in the hive: Plan Interna…
We Juke Up In Here: Mississippi Juke Joint Traditions
Red Paden at home in Red’s Lounge; Lou Bopp
This month will see the release of a new documentary from Jeff Konkel of Broke and Hungry Records and Roger Stolle of the Cat Head music and art store. We Juke Up In Here, co-directed with Damien Blayloc…
Bartering A Rural-Urban Connection
Yesterday we learned via Arts Journal of a new effort aimed at taking the crowd-funding platform and removing the monetary exchange from the process. OurGoods pairs creative individuals and their projects and allows for mutually-beneficial collabor…
Readings: Rural Traditions Sunk Into Eternal Oblivion
from The Farmer’s Year: A Calendar of Animal Husbandry; Clare Leighton, 1935
In our Readings
series, we offer selections from visual and printed texts that offer
perspectives, expand dialogues, and challenge assumptions. Today we feature the res…
The Tree That Bursts Through The Silo
Tree In Silo; Ken Wolf
Many thanks to María Arambula for sharing on our Arts and Culture Feed A.G. Sulzberger’s latest rural dispatch for The New York Times, “Amid Rural Decay, Trees Take Root in Silos.” The image of these trees bursting from dis…
One Clover & A Bee: Poems For Families To Learn And Love
Is Poetry On Your Playlist? Many of us think of poetry with a capital P—meaning, Poetry lives in a castle high on a hill surrounded by a deep moat and a drawbridge. Beautiful from a distance, probably beautiful inside, but a little scary and, unless …
Wendell Berry’s Jefferson Lecture: "It All Turns On Affection"
On Monday night Wendell Berry delivered “It All Turns on Affection,” the 2012 Jefferson Lecture at the Kennedy Center. Each year the National Endowment for the Humanities offers this lectureship, “the highest honor the federal government bestows fo…
Photographing Rural Maine, Beyond The Vacationland
Gregory Gives his Cousin Lori a Rose, 1983; Steven Rubin
This month TIME Magazine’s Lightbox photography section highlights the work of Steven Rubin and his 30 year project in Somerset County, Maine — the fruits of which are currently on view at …