In 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.
Evidence, 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.
The 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.
City 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.
Death 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.
Looking 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.
Having 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.