Rural Resurrection

RAGBRAI ’22 is Coming!

It’s mid-July and that means that RAGBRAI ’22 is just around the corner. This year the annual event will be traversing the northern reaches of Iowa on its way to… Read more »

Adaptive Reuse: Ridgeway Community Center

Adaptive Reuse is a relatively popular category for the Rural Resurrection website. If done right, an adaptive reuse project can be a profitable venture for those involved. But if done… Read more »

6 Reasons For Adaptive Reuse in Your Community

In last week’s post we explored “What is Adaptive Reuse?” In addition to defining and describing what it is, we looked at some recent posts on Rural Resurrection about successful… Read more »

Over the past few years, there have been a few articles on adaptive reuse projects throughout the Midwest. But what is “adaptive reuse”? According to Wikipedia, “adaptive reuse refers to the… Read more »

Remembering the Pilger Tornadoes (Part 2)

Last week we remembered the tornadoes that devastated Pilger, Nebraska in 2014. June 16th marked the 8th anniversary of the twin tornadoes that changed Pilger forever. In the aftermath of… Read more »

Remembering the Pilger Tornadoes (Part 1)

June 16th of this year marks the 8th anniversary of Pilger, Nebraska, tornado. Or more so, the Pilger tornadoes as twin tornados ripped through the Pilger area at essentially the… Read more »

Ghost Towns: Crystal Springs, North Dakota

Ghost Towns is a relatively popular category for the Rural Resurrection website. Our last posting in this category was on Ardmore, South Dakota. There’s an old saying, “Those who cannot… Read more »

Memorial Day: Higgins National Memorial Park

Each year we take a day to remember those who died in active military service. Memorial Day is observed on the last Monday in May as flags line our streets… Read more »

Inmates Helping to Meet Affordable Housing Demand

The month of May is Affordable Housing Month. Rural Resurrection continues to look at ways to help communities to provide safe, decent, affordable housing. Affordable housing is a growing issue… Read more »

APA NPC ’22 – The Aftermath

It’s over and San Diego is still standing. Over 3,000 planning geeks descended on the southern California city for the annual APA National Planning Conference (NPC ’22) a few weeks… Read more »