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By Julie Ardery

Ag and Trade | Arts and Culture
Before Rural Was Red: Prints from the Schmidt Collection
10/11/2007
Medaris farm sceneIn images of rural life from the first half of the 20th Century, piety goes hand in hand with hardship. A new exhibit shows "religious art" from America's pre-Jet-Ski era.
Health
Death by Prescription in Rural America
09/19/2007
map of increased drug fatalitiesEvidence, both statistical and personal, keeps piling up that drug fatalities are increasing fastest in rural communities. And most deadly overdoses involve medications that doctors prescribe.
Ag and Trade | Arts and Culture
Hard Days & Conjunto Nights: Roel Flores
09/16/2007

Acordeones alegresThe strain of migrant farm labor and the lilt of dance parties come together under the brush of a self-taught painter from the Rio Grande Valley.

Ag and Trade | Food
Auction! The Music of Competitive Markets
09/02/2007
auctioneers storyThe song goes on at 1100 livestock auctions in the U.S.. But these bastions of competitive marketing are under siege; a system of 'captive supply' is gaining a monopoly over what we eat.
Politics and Government | Travel/Recreation
Pennsylvania's Highway Clash: Urban v. Rural
08/20/2007
highway 80 thumbnailCity and country residents in Pennsylvania are battling over plans to make Interstate 80 a toll road. Is this a culture war? Nope. It's about money and the decline in federal dollars for infrastructure.
Arts and Culture | Religion and Faith
One Man's Cathedral in the Georgia Pines
08/03/2007
story of St. EOMEddie Owens Martin's escapades took him back to rural Georgia to create a place of wonder and call it saintly.
Health
Rural Trauma Victims Dying of the 'Golden' Rule
08/01/2007
wreck ner Biddeford MaineDeath rates from traumatic injury are much higher in rural parts of the U.S., but Maine's health care pros have banded together to improve and hasten critical care statewide.
Food | Wildlife
Fireweed Says 'Carpe Diem' in Alaskan
07/28/2007
close up thumb of fireweedNothing lights a fire under Alaskans like the ascending bloom of fireweed. "Summer's clock," it sounds the alarm.
Arts and Culture | Growth and Development
Everything's Bigger in the Country -- Almost
07/21/2007
jackalopeLooking for a 40-pound scorpion? then, of course, head for rural America. But if health insurance or even good health are what you'd like, maybe the Great American Countryside isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Environment | People to Know
The Wild Lady of Karnack, Texas
07/12/2007
Lady Bird Johnson in wildflowersHaving grown up in rural Texas, Lady Bird Johnson didn't think of the American landscape as one "homogenous" drive-through. And she made sure we wouldn't see it that way either.
Daily Yonder | Keep It Rural
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