A small town with "big eyes" managed to fill its empty downtown buildings with antiques stores. Shoring up that advance with a Main Street project, Gladewater now reaches out to nearby towns to strengthen its region of East Texas through education.

Ranchers will try anything. So when Joe Marchbanks laid his eyes on some Arkansas water buffalo, you knew he was going to start his own herd.

The kids at the college's demonstration farm work hard — and learn. They are rural America's future and we need to listen to them.

Yes, there are "factory" organic farms -- and all sorts of other things that make farming not so cute.