This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. We will be taking the ...

Crop farmer Bob Worth, left, prays with his pastor and fellow church council members. Worth is a third-generation farmer who battled depression in the early '80s and now advocates for further help and ...

The Hill Country Arts Foundation, in Ingram, Texas, was prepared to put on a show. It was one week out from the opening of the outdoor production of the ...

When Carol Kolseth got her biopsy results back after a routine mammogram in October of 2024, she knew treatments for the cancerous lump in her breast ...

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This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a ...

What do queer Appalachians and a serpent-handling preacher have in common? More than you might think. “American culture ...

My colleague Smmo Ozawa and I spent the past year recording oral histories about immigration in the rural United States. One of my favorite interviews ...

October was LGBTQ History month thanks to a history teacher from rural Missouri. Rodney Wilson made history in 1994 when he came out as gay to his St.

The third annual “Best in Rural Writing Contest” was presented by the rural literary journal The Milk House with promotional ...

The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy is a twice-monthly newsletter showcasing the best – and the worst – in rural media and entertainment. Rural Remix is a podcast feed that cuts through rural stereotypes ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about what it really costs to stay alive in this country. Not in the spiritual sense – in the literal one. The bills. The ...