Volunteers help build an affordable home in Hazard, Kentucky. Photo by Shawn Poynter/Daily Yonder Do It Yourself. The churches I have worked with over the years live by this simple rural philosophy.

Larry Ernster didn’t intend to write a book. Instead his first book, "Rural Wisdom: The Times When Life Has Really Spun Our Wheels," started out as a collection of letters to his mother, Pernilla. The ...

For University of Tennessee professor Scottie McDaniel, her research is a way of unearthing the wisdom inherent in rural life. Her research and design exhibit, “Rural Ways,” recently on display in the ...