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By Julie Ardery
A former labor camp and factory complex comes down in Danville, Virginia. Is it a site worth preserving or an ugly vestige of industrial exploitation? Or both?
Get your bearings and some luck on a fork; Phillip Perkins cooks good fortune food year 'round in Tyler, Texas.
Chasing the world record, Smithville, Texas, cooks up a 25-foot gingerbread giant -- again. So what's detaining the people at Guinness?
For those in the know, and wannabes, Thanksgiving brings a tequila toast at Choate's bar in San Angelo, Texas.
A select group of rural communities have become hubs for artists, spinning stronger since the 1990s. What makes some rural communities attractive to creative types?
In California, the dreaded Medfly had turned up again, and so have the apple moth and Mexican fruit fly, meaning quarantines and paralysis for many farmers. When it comes to insect "terrorists," who's minding the borders? 
Rural colleges are sending admissions ambassadors to city high schools to recruit new students. Out-of-state? No problem - you may qualify for in-state tuition. 
A Nebraska train conductor cooks locomotively, all the way from Alliance to Ravenna. It's simple (just steer clear of Ziploc bags).
A new study of public education shows there are more rural students -- many of them non-English speakers -- and big changes needed to provide the types schools where they will succeed. 
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