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The Golden Thread: 10 Years of Rural-Urban Exchange in Kentucky Monthly
The Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange has been building connections to bring Kentuckians together for a decade! Join us in celebrating this milestone at The Golden Thread. This annual event gathers visionary leaders from various sectors to foster unity across cultures and communities in the Commonwealth. Read more: https://bit.ly/3NI01Xw
Is the Partisan Divide Too Big to Be Bridged? in New York Times
Photographs by Jon Cherry For The New York Times
Jonathan Weisman reported from Campbellsville, Ky., Kalamazoo, Mich., and Chicago.
Bernard Clay, a Black, middle-aged data analyst and poet from Louisville, Ky., was leery when he was thrown together with Shaelyn Bishop, a shy, white, young biologist who grew up on a family farm in rural Green County, Ky., 15 minutes from the closest town. Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/16/us/politics/national-divisions.html?smid=url-share
A Rural Calling: Savannah Barrett in The Daily Yonder
The Daily YonderSavannah Barrett walks the wooded grounds of what was once the Grayson Springs Inn and Resort summoning her forebears for guidance.
Barrett and her husband, Joe Manning – a writer, editor, musician, and co-founder of the Louisville Story Program – recently bought six acres of this land from her grandmother. She envisions their daughter, Sylvia, being the seventh generation in her lineage to steward it. This is the homeplace.