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Playing with fire

infini — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:39:03 -0800

"Its the story of our own village" ~ A journey in Indian street theatre (PDF of article) share's author Joel Lee's experiences wandering around India with three street theatre troupes. Also called the "theater of social change" this grassroots artform has become a powerful means of communication across the barriers of language, literacy and culture in both rural and urban India. This would be incomplete without a mention of street theatre's patron saint, Safdar Hashmi, whose birthday has become national Street Theatre Day in India, but he, and the use of this medium in politics, deserve their own FPP.

Great, plain, still emptying

dersins — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:15:04 -0800

Faded Dreams, Emptied in Emmons County and Memories in McIntosh County. Three flickr photo sets of (mostly) abandoned, crumbling farms, businesses and homes in rural North Dakota. [previously] [via]

Great, plain, empty.

dersins — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:21:35 -0800

"The Emptied Prairie," a National Geographic article on North Dakota's ghost towns and the decline of the Great Plains. Typically amazing National Geographic photos here. Reminds me of a similar series that ran in the New York Times several years ago, which included this fascinating article by Timothy Egan.

Fifteen would be too much

Bighappyfunhouse — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:22:49 -0800

Fourteen Places to Eat - p h o t o s f r o m r u r a l A m e r i c a

Driving a pick-up truck with "Man Love Rules OK" across Alabama

badlydubbedboy — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:48:51 -0800

Would you drive a pick-up truck with "Man Love Rules OK" across Alabama? (YouTube video) The presenters behind UK motoring/male-entertainment show Top Gear did. See what happens when they pulled into a "gas" station. More information here. Do you think the footage was manipulated?

Swerve on a Country Road

Julie — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:49:33 -0800

Red America is shading purplish blue. A new poll shows rural voters in 41 highly competitive districts have swerved Democratic since September. Now 52/39 for the Dems.

How many Katrina victims still forgotten?

flug — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 11:47:45 -0800

Yet to draw national sympathy--and shock? Some hurricane survivors are being allowed to return to check their homes and authorities are working to deal with the dead. But how many people may remain in mortal peril? The NOLAView weblog reports some ongoing, hair-raising situations: "Kathy Frank is stranded and trapped at 1737 Valence Street. She is text messageing. . . . Right now it is Monday at 12 pm." "[A]rson fires have been set in the Bywater and criminals are still in control of the streets at night." And this is within New Orleans. What about rural areas--struggling and receiving little or no federal assistance? And the spread of infectious disease and other post-hurricane threats?

Who will go postal over this?

?! — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:04:05 -0800

Photos of Unique Mailboxes from Sam , Fred, Kimo, Dean, Flickr, and a few from Quaint Places.

"I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks"

pandaharma — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 06:50:48 -0800

"It's a moral argument. How morally right is it for our Democratic nominee for president to tell 60 million people, 'You don't matter to me'?" An interview with Dave "Mudcat" Saunders on how Democrats can get the Bubba vote. (via the revealer)

In conclusion: meth sucks.

saysthis — Mon, 09 May 2005 11:11:32 -0800

Every now and again, a story or scandal falls off the newswire that reminds you good guys and bad guys don't happen in real life. The fantastic original expose and ongoing coverage of the Dick Dasen case in Montana is one of them. The testimony of dozens or hundreds of women Dick Dasen, a wealthy Christian pillar-of-the-community businessman type, has paid for sex (or sometimes nothing at all) over several years are bringing the Flathead Valley meth scene to light, and thanks to what I personally think is some excellent local reporting by the New West, you can read along as it happens.

China's great divide

Tlogmer — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:29:41 -0800

In China's newly wealthy cities, a research boom is starting. In parts of the countryside, the rivers are black and too toxic to touch.

Lost to history? or improvement?

Bag Man — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:13:47 -0800

Welcome to Rawson, N.D., Population. 6. Are towns like these worth saving? Should these "areas" be allowed to go back to their natural equilibrium between man and nature? Is there a "natural" equilibrium? What does this mean for the future of small towns v. urban sprawl? Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times and Drs. Frank and Deborah Popper of Rutgers have an idea.

Baaaa! Mooooo!

i_cola — Mon, 06 Oct 2003 06:21:24 -0800

The Museum of English Rural Life which includes the INTERnet Farm And Countryside Explorer (INTERFACE).

hama7 — Thu, 31 Oct 2002 05:08:30 -0800

Chinese culture. Calligraphy, and Chinese rural architecture.

patrickje — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:19:41 -0800

The demise of the honey bucket. Many of us take running water and sewage services for granted. The Alaska Dept of Environmental Conservation is slowly converting rural Eskimo villages from a "fill and haul a bucket" sewage/water system to modern services. A fascinating look into the logistics required to bring these services into remote Artic villages.

Mack Twain — Tue, 04 Jun 2002 11:54:25 -0800

Tired of the intrusiveness of the Federal Government? Hate the United Nations? Grant County welcomes you! About the size of Connecticut with a population of 7,500, this rural Oregon County recently passed ballot measures banning the UN and allowing people to cut trees on federal land, with or without the U.S. Forest Service approval. Government agencies are engaged in something called "Rural Cleansing" according to WSJ reporter Kimberley A. Strassel, and the people are having some success standing up to the government. Are these people kooks? Is Civil disobedience wrong? Are you in, out, or straddling the fence? Ready to move?