Rural Data: Telling Stories with Numbers
Rural datasets can be difficult to find and even more difficult to analyze. But utilizing data in telling rural stories is a great way to interrogate, and disprove, widespread misconceptions about rural America.
A rural Western North Carolina county will keep its public library in the regional system, but not without debate
The high elevation usually keeps things cool here in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, but temperatures were sweltering by mountain standards on July 10, when hundreds of people gathered in a hot courtroom to show support for their regional library system.
Many Rural Americans Can't Meet SNAP Program Work Requirements
The Daily Yonder's Sarah Melotte was our guest, recapping her story on how small towns and rural areas across America, particularly in the South, are facing tougher times due to new SNAP Program requirements.
Is Rural America Struggling? It Depends On How You Define Rural
Sarah talks with WNCW’s Paul Foster about the definition of “rural” and how those definitions may obscure the truth about rural America.
‘We are not thought of’: The true impact of Western North Carolina’s maternal desert on rural women
In Western North Carolina, many of the region’s 153,000 childbearing-aged women often must travel long distances for prenatal care and delivery at the area’s eight hospitals. Maternal health experts and mothers discuss the causes, impact and potential solutions to addressing WNC’s “maternal care desert.”
‘Land Rich, Cash Poor’ – How Black Americans Lost Some of the Most Desirable Land in the U.S., Successful Farming
Developers and others have used the complexities of heirs’ property ownership to force the sale of family-owned land, generating wealth for some and a paucity for others.
The Straining of North Carolina’s Chattooga River and the Indigenous Artform that Could Save It, 100 Days in Appalachia
I climb a boulder that juts out into rapids. The rushing water is so loud it drowns out my breath. I’ve come to the banks of the Chattooga River for solitude, for the way water carries away inner noise. I’m here early enough that I get a few moments of peace all to myself. The river works on me like it works on rock. Under the force of a little pressure I am smoothed out.