In this day and age, if you wish to paint, sculpt, sing or dance, chances are you’ll take any job you can get to feed your passion, not to mention put a roof over your head.
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Based on “Rural Stories”.
Keep Napa Green?
In the late 1960s, local leaders in the Napa Valley looked to the future and saw it was green. Or, at least, they were determined that it would stay that way.
Sarah Deer, lawyer and 2014 MacArthur Fellow, examines poverty and domestic violence on tribal lands
When Sarah Deer was a college student in Lawrence, Kansas, in the early 1990s, she volunteered at a crisis hotline for battered women where she heard both stories of despair and resilience. Two decades later, one woman in particular remains with her.
Southern Montana’s Crow Tribe works to house its homeless veterans
On the windy plains of the Crow Reservation in southern Montana, young men scramble across scaffolding amid massive fans and turbines, measuring door widths and sweeping the cement floors across this dusty construction site.
Success and Setbacks
Jose “Chepo” Leyva-Lopez has won praise for his home-made tamales and business acumen, but dozens of hurdles remain By Elizabeth . . .