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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Arts and Culture | Cool Places

09/13/2011

ceiling fixers Being the "new people" in a small town is exciting and awkward. Nouveau-Iowan Julianne Couch struggles to answer the question, "What brings you to Bellevue?"

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Welcome, Everyone, to Pine City

08/29/2011

Pine City, Minnesota, has the largest proportion of same sex couples in rural Minnesota. Why? Maybe because everyone is welcome here.

Arts and Culture | Cool Places

Mapping Culture

08/05/2011

Patchwork Nation makes a valiant attempt to measure the differences from place to place in America. The challenge to us is to find a better way to calculate local culture. Here's a start.

Cool Places | Growth and Development | Main Street Economics | Travel/Recreation

Gladewater: Making New From Old

08/02/2011

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.

Cool Places | Growth and Development

The Story of Seymour

07/09/2011

Want to know how to bring a community together? Welcome to Seymour, Missouri.

Cool Places | Religion and Faith

Hooray for the Red, White and Dubina

07/04/2011

blue fairlane How do you celebrate July 4th? With watermelon, parades, or how about 10 hours of dancing in 97 degree heat?

Arts and Culture | Cool Places

'Faces of Rural America' Exhibit

06/24/2011

An Ohio museum displays pictures taken by two photographers working around the turn of the last century, one in West Virginia and the other in Missouri.

Cool Places | Travel/Recreation

Re-Bound for Lost Springs (Pop. 4)

06/17/2011

lewis and clark S&P Finding an inhabitant in Lost Springs, Wyoming, is tough. It's not deer season, and the mayor/bar-owner has her hands full tangling with the U.S. Census Bureau.