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Tag: Rural Placemaking

Veterans Day: a time to stand with those who have served

By Jennifer Bevis

For rural communities, Veterans Day is an up close and personal day of remembrance. Many of us count family, friends and neighbors among those who have served our country in times of war and peace, and are serving today. Minnesota author and veteran Diana Oestreich asks that this Veteran’s Day we go deeper than simply …

Riverfest Creates Community, Celebrates “Home”

By Alie McInerney

You know that feeling you get when you walk through your front door after a long while gone? That instantaneous action, and reaction, of filling your lungs with air that is uniquely yours that smells, tastes and wraps around you in a way that cheers, “You’re home!” That was the feeling bursting from the hearts …