Real Small Towns

Real Small Towns

“RealSmallTowns is a tapestry of community commitment woven through stories of people and place” In an effort to reframe the dominant narrative about rural America (losing population, clannish, and conventional to a fault,) RealSmallTowns is working to create a...
Building The Agricultural City -An Argument for Regional Economies

Building The Agricultural City -An Argument for Regional Economies

In his book, Building The Agricultural City—A Handbook For Rural Renewal, Robert Wolf asks the question: “Is there a means by which we can construct a society in which the human being is central, not peripheral, with an economy that serves us? One in which it is...
Pierce Hill Performing Arts – A lifetime dream, realized.

Pierce Hill Performing Arts – A lifetime dream, realized.

Viroqua, Wisconsin has been increasingly recognized as the small town that could… a place where time and time again, creativity, chutzpah, and community have coalesced to add lasting value and vitality to the town. The opening of Pierce Hill Performing Arts this...
Mineral Point, WI

Mineral Point, WI

It was just supposed to be an ordinary vacation—a brief escape from a job and a drive with a friend. But an unplanned detour that landed me in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, proved to be a life-changing event. I had lived in small towns most of my life, visited many more,...