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The Daily Yonder Thanks for sticking with us. We can shorten the odds. Share this: Today is the last day of our annual Daily Yonder donor campaign. It was also on this day twenty years ago we started the Center for Rural Strategies. Specifically, on December 31, 2000, we signed incorporation papers and got our IRS letter into the Whitesburg, Kentucky Post Office. We had not yet imagined the Daily Yonder then, or the Rural Assembly, or campaigns taking on CBS or the U.S. banking system. Still, we had a decent plan. We imagined an outfit like the one we were planning could shine a differ...

1/1 THE organiser behind a scheme to help homeless people and struggling families at Christmas has expressed her gratitude following an "unbelievable" community response. Earlier in December the Leader reported how the community group Wrexham Homeless launched its annual shoebox appeal. Last year the group received and made up 300 boxes containing all kinds of essentials, toiletries and food thanks to the generosity of the public. This year businesses and residents have helped the group to create even more. Dee Davis, founder of Wrexham Homeless, said: "We've had abo...

The Daily Yonder Palmer’s House of Toys Kids have their own way of judging what's real, and it's not necessarily based on the cost of the Santa suit. Share this: The Hazard High School drama club circa 1968. Adviser Evangeline “Dang” Palmer is far left. The author, Dee Davis, is top right. (Via Facebook) At 17 I was the Santa Claus for the Walkertown section of Hazard. Rick Rosanova, the news guy at Channel 4, was Santa at the new Sears in the old bowling alley in another part of town, Lothair. And Bill Douglas was the city’s main Santa from Backwoods to Big Bottom. He had ...

  White, rural voters have been excoriated in some quarters of the media for voting for Donald Trump. Consequently, popular culture depictions of those in the outlying areas are often viewed through a political lens. Why We Wrote This At a time when the United States is divided along political and urban-rural lines, what do three recent films about country lives add to the conversation? Those living in small-town America worry about how they’re portrayed by filmmakers who’ve parachuted into a locale. Others argue that the outsider storytellers can bring fresh perspectives to soc...

The Daily Yonder And heck, we're just getting started. Share this: In early 2007 it was another election season. Then, as now, there was much jabber on television and in print about what the “rural vote” was going to do. The presidential candidates were making their trips to Iowa and New Hampshire. And although these states were constantly described as “rural” there was hardly anything rural about the campaign. Outside a required pledge of allegiance to ethanol and a few hay bales (always square) at campaign events, there was nothing remotely rural about what these would-be presi...