Rural Resurrection

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 »

Winslow Striving for Higher Ground – Part 2

Last week we looked into Winslow, Nebraska’s past. We also discussed how the Floods of 2019 impacted this small community and how the University of Nebraska – Lincoln and JEO… Read more »

Winslow Striving for Higher Ground – Part 1

The floods of 2019 forever impacted a number of communities throughout the Midwest. We’ve already chronicled the struggles of towns hit hard by the floods. The struggles of Hamburg, Iowa,… Read more »

Home Repair Problematic for Elderly and Disabled

Rising healthcare and insurance costs are impacting everyone. However there are two groups that are quite possibly the most adversely affected that we don’t hear from as much as other,… Read more »

Ghost Towns: Taconite Harbor, MN

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

Sedalia Railroad Depots: Part 2 – The Sedalia Depot

Last week we explored the history, rehabilitation, and reuse of the Katy Depot in Sedalia, Missouri. However, there are actually two notable railroad depots in Sedalia that have gone through… Read more »

Sedalia Railroad Depots: Part 1 – The Katy Depot

Sometimes when conducting research on one article I stumble upon the basis for another article. This time I’ve stumbled upon two different stories about adaptive reuse projects in Sedalia, Missouri…. Read more »

Because CEDS Said So

My first full time planning position was with a regional council of governments in Iowa. Being a small office that served eight counties, I needed to “wear multiple hat’s”. One… Read more »