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The Daily Yonder 8 Rural Books to Help You Get Through the Wintry Weeks at Home – Part 2 The Daily Yonder team comes back with more book recommendations for your reading pleasure. These rural novels, memoirs and short story collections are worth a spot on your reading list. Last week we published a list of some of our favorite rural books to help get you through a tough February. But as temperatures gradually raise and the sun comes out, we believe that reading a great book, inside or outside, hasn’t lost its appeal. Here are eight more rural books recommended by our colleagues...

Rural residents reluctant to get vaccines: study By Bill Knight Trips to the store might show that most folks are serious taking pandemic precautions, from wearing masks to keeping safe distances, but a new study says many rural residents nationally aren’t concerned about COVID-19, think the threat is exaggerated, or consider their responses a personal choice instead of a civic responsibility. About one-third of rural residents are reluctant to get vaccinated, according to Kaiser Family Foundation, more so than city or suburban dwellers (27% and 25% respectively). Respondents said they prob...

Connie Kitts-Bailey topping off gingerbread cake with her cousin Alice Bailey Nunn. Nunn's dad, Jim Bailey, made the sorghum used in the recipe. Have you ever noticed how conversations about food can lead us to learn surprising things about each other? In this week’s episode of Inside Appalachia, we talk about holiday foods. We’ve got recipes for things like cranberry salad, sorghum gingerbread, and pecan pie. But more than recipes, this show is about the power of memory, and tradition. Co-host Caitlin Tan shares her grandmother’s recipe for stollen, a special German sweet bread that ...

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...