Author: Macy Campbell
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Macy Campbell
Publisher:
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Verlyn Klinkenborg
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316029327
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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The hugely admired author of "The Last Fine Time" preserves and makes new the sights, smells, sounds, and poetry of country living. Klinkenborg reveals the beauty of the American landscape, not from a scenic overlook, but through a screened-in porch or from the window of a pickup driving down an empty highway in the teeth of an approaching storm.

Author: Edward Mowbray Tuttle
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 700

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Author: Macy Campbell
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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Author: Kai. A Schafft
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000289559
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Featuring chapters by an international group of scholars and academics, Rural Youth at the Crossroads discusses the challenges and contexts facing youth from rural communities in countries with legacies of socialism undergoing social, political, and economic transition. The chapters employ a variety of sources and approaches to examine rural youth outcomes, and the well-being and sustainability of rural areas. The book focuses particularly on career and educational goals, the often contradictory relations between rural schools and communities, majority-minoritized group relations, community engagement, and political attitudes. Individual chapters examine these questions and dynamics within Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Serbia, and Vietnam. In total the volume represents a unique and timely comparative discussion of the relationship between youth and rural development within transitional societies, and the challenges and opportunities for enhancing the well-being and sustainability of rural communities. Aimed at informing strategies to revitalize rural social space, this book is targeted towards social scientists with interest in sociology and rural sociology, demography, education, youth development, community/regional development, rurality, public policy, and identity formation in transitional contexts. As such, this book will have international appeal to researchers, educators, and policymakers in transitional countries, and to those interested in these topics, regions, and communities.

Author: Montress Greene
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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CROSSROADS is a book of true stories and events of the 1930's and 1940's. It contains both historical and legendary stories about country stores, poverty, farm life, front porches, sharecropping, childhood labor, health care, hardships, race relations and more. Stories are factual and written from the author's memories of growing up in rural eastern North Carolina. The author writes about the peddlers who traveled throughout rural areas selling their goods such as sewing machines, Bibles, ribbons, candy, blankets and even fish. Tobacco was the "king of crops" and the crossroads was right in the heart of tobacco land. The Southern folklore in CROSSROADS is informative and entertaining. Greene was fortunate to have longevity in her family. She had six living grandmothers and great grandmothers and two grandfathers living during her childhood. All lived near the Crossroads and her interaction with them provided a wealth of information about the past. Many of her family elders were storytellers and loved sharing both the history of the area and the legends dating back to the Civil War. As you read these stories, you will feel the respect and love Greene has for the place she grew up. You will feel the love she has for the people and for the time spent at the country store and on the front porches of her grandparents. The stories will trigger memories for the older folks and introduce younger generations to a time long past but not forgotten.

Author: Robert Felde
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
ISBN: 9781439239568
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Life at the Crossroads, sometimes funny and sometimes poignant, recounts a 1950's and 60's rural Wisconsin community as it revolved around a country store.

Author: Macy Campbell
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Jacqueline Edmondson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461613353
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Prairie Town: Redefining Rural Life in the Age of Globalization describes the contemporary rural condition and efforts to sustain rural life in one small Minnesota community at the turn of the 21st century. Like many other agricultural based towns, Prairie Town struggled for survival within the context of the on-going farm crisis, NAFTA, neoliberal agricultural policies, and growing agribusiness that negatively impacted many farmers throughout the world. The effects of globalization, the displacement of rural workers to urban areas, and the deterioration of rural life were a widespread phenomenon. In spite of these complex issues, Prairie Town worked to define a new rural— life, one which entailed a new rural literacy—a new way of reading rural life-that changed the way rural life, work, and education were realized. Prairie Town's story offers us hope as we learn that neoliberalism is not inevitable, nor is the demise of rural America. From this community, we learn that not everything can be bought and sold, and disidentification with dominant societal structures is possible within a participatory democratic society. New cultural models can be constructed that enable individuals in Prairie Town and elsewhere to actively work to construct ways of being that are consistent with their values and hopes for how they might live together.