Category Archives: Rural Life

Workshop to Go: Storytelling for Community Planning

For the Orton Family Foundation, we have put together a 30-minute workshop in both video and slideshow formats to take you through an overview of  storytelling in community planning efforts, using Orton’s project partner towns as examples to learn from, and with exercises to work through as you think about employing storytelling in your community.  [...]

LocalMatters: Planning a Storytelling Project for Community Engagement

This past fall, we participated in the Community Matters’ 10 Conference in Denver by offering a full-day pre-conference workshop on designing an effective storytelling workshop to enhance community engagement.  We created a wiki that followed the workshop and offered strategies, exercises, and resources.  You are welcome to have a look!

Technology changing the employment landscape in rural communities

There’s a lot of buzz both at home and abroad about broadband access, the power of telecommunications to transform the employment landscape of truly rural communities. Local and traditional industry can utilize the web to sustain and grow business, all from their own town. No longer is moving to urban centers for education [...]

From Barbara’s Blog: Memories of Ancestors, Thoughts of the Land

July 4
Being the daughter of a historian who spent his life researching, writing, and teaching about the early days of this country, I’m naturally thinking back today as I look out over the fields I call home…to the rich history of Vermont and its role in the country’s story, its public figures from [...]