My Favorite Place

Earlier this year, The Rural Assembly put out a call: we wanted to see and share your favorite places. We wanted to celebrate the places that bring you joy, whether in your backyard, down the road, or across the country. Enjoy this collection of those places, from California, Nebraska, South Carolina and more. Over the summer, we’ll share each of these individual stories on our social media. Follow along as we travel through these favorite places. 

Have one of your own to share? Tag us in a post or email [email protected]

Drawing Resilience: Casey Orr

Photographer Casey Orr has been documenting the ways people find each other, and themselves, through how they present themselves to the world her entire career. Her current project focuses on rural young people in northern England and eastern Washington State.

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What Rural Communities Need to Know about Data Centers

Join us online 2 p.m. ET March 4 for a 90-minute interactive session “What Rural Communities Need to Know about AI Data Centers” designed to cut through the noise and help rural practitioners and community members understand what’s currently disputed about data center impacts.

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