Rural Resurrection

Ghost Towns: Athelstan, Iowa

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

The “Make Marshalltown Home” Program

June is National Home Ownership Month. So it seems appropriate to have at least one article on on way for others to invest in your community. In it’s simplest form,… Read more »

Harvest Hosts Aid Agritourism

In the past year our family has reaffirmed our love for camping. So much that we’ve recently upped our game from a mid-90s pop-up to a full travel trailer. As… Read more »

“Farm”, a word that goes hand-in-hand with the term “rural”. Farming is often the basis for a rural community’s existence. Farming supports the community and the community supports the farmer…. Read more »

CDBGs Help Maintain Affordable Housing

The month of May is Affordable Housing Month. In celebration of Affordable Housing Month, Rural Resurrection is looking at one often overlooked way to help affordable housing in your rural… Read more »

Lloyd House Changing the Look of Affordable Housing

The month of May is Affordable Housing Month. In celebration of Affordable Housing Month, Rural Resurrection is looking at adaptive reuse of the Lloyd House building as a way to… Read more »

Affordable Housing Month 2021

The month of May is Affordable Housing Month. Unfortunately this month is somewhat of a double-edged sword for rural communities. For quite a while it has been a marketing point… Read more »

APA NPC21 – Anticipate and Adapt (The Recap)

Well, it’s over. This year’s APA National Conference (NPC21) is over. Except for some occasional technical difficulties, the overall conference ran well. It was run on a pretty good, pretty… Read more »

APA NPC21 – Anticipate and Adapt

Each year my excitement for the upcoming APA National Planning Conference (NPC21) starts to build in the December of the previous year. That’s when registration typically opens and I start… Read more »

Who’s up for a Kansas Road Trip?!

Some the my best memories of my collegiate years is going on road trips. We would cram a bunch of us into a car and set out on the open… Read more »