By Kenyon Gradert News broke of Phil Robertson’s remarks a few days before my wife and I left for my parents’ Iowa farm. Both of us teachers, we…
The Cas Walker Knoxville city council fist-fight; LIFE Magazine [Editor’s Note: As I am facing numerous writing deadlines, this seems like a good time to give a retrospective…
The brig at the 2011 Trekfest; Rob Daniel, The Press Citizen When I was recently traveling through Iowa on my way to the National Rural Assembly I had…
This is the photograph that originally appeared in LIFE magazine. I recently received an email and suggestion from Chuck Shuford, a writer and arts commentator for The Daily…
The Daily Yonder and The Rural Blog are two sites I read each day; they both provide some of the most thorough, provocative and indispensable information and commentary…
Wisconsin Local Arts Conference: November 29
National Arts Strategies Summit for Change: Sundance, Utah,November 12-15
Common Field: Los Angeles, November 2-5
Wyoming Arts Council 50th Summit: Lander, WY, November 2-4
Charting The American Bottom: Missouri History Center, October 26
Indiana Arts Homecoming: Indianapolis, October 5
