Less than a first episode, this is more of a brief introduction. A road map, if you will. (Does anybody still know what those are?)

Why is rural American culture important? How will we find it? Where will we look? And are you coming?

In the introduction, I make reference to the following article, in case you’d like to give it a read:

“The Ghosts of Place”:
http://www.michael-bell.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/bell-1997.pdf

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