Fate leaves it up to Paula Miller -- a cardiologist in Chapel Hill, North Carolina -- to take her parents back to their "home places" in the rural Deep South. Families are changing and so is thinking, Paula's included.
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.
The First Annual National Rural Assembly, June 25-27, recognized six champions of small communities for their work. Eloise Cobell, a community development leader from Montana, was among the "rural heroes" honored.