Imagery of Community

Rural People – Handsome Bunch The Imagery The Imagery –Pioneer stock –Rugged good looks –Ruddy –Farm girl –Cowboy –From good stock –Simple beauty –Good Ole Boy

Quintessential Small Town I always think of heaven as a small town With a bandstand in a park with old houses all around, and a great many trees. And I would know everyone in it And no one would ever age, or die, or move away ANNE TYLER

The Power of Image Many Of Our Rural Areas Now Serve As Icons They Are Coming To Be Viewed As “Restorative Areas” This Imagery is Powerful – & Compelling Increased Urbanization Is Assumed To Heighten The Appreciation Of Rural Amenities

Power of Imagery - Redeux

Imagery – The Dark Side

& Darker Side

Access to Rural Image North America Has Its Vast Panoramas, Wilderness, Public Lands, And Sense of Becoming The Route to Europe’s Assets is Through Their Cities The Gateway to America’s Crown Jewels is Through Our Small Towns and Rural Areas

Community Imagery at a Glance

Vanishing Images of Rural Schools

Nature Sells

Of Remote Places

And Small Places

And Farms

Open Spaces & Crops

And Mountain Meadows

Working Ranches

And Fence Lines

Magnificent Panoramas

Idyllic Lives of Noble Rural People

Hunting & Sports aka Nuns With Guns

And Waiting Opportunities

Road Side Attractions

Which Way to go to Find Image?

With Rugged Individualism

A Wonderful Sense of the Past

And, of Course, Rural People

With Restorative Places for Leisure 0

But, There is Another Side to Rural Rural People Compose 49 percent of the world’s population. You can’t get here from there

A Side We Don’t Always Wish to Acknowledge

But, I Though That Most Poverty was Urban?

A Poverty of Human Suffering & Misery

Really? That Bad KENYANS reacting to a New Zealand offer of dog food to save hungry children have said they would rather eat it than starve to death. About every 6 seconds a person dies of involuntary starvation On Tuesday September 11, 2001, at least 35,000 people around the world died from starvation – 85% of them were childrenSeptember 11, 2001

Rural is Host to Poverty of the Spirit

And of the Soul

Where Loneliness & Despair Are the Rule

It is a Place Where Destruction Come Easily

But God, What a Land of Great Contrasts

Even a Little Bit of That Old Time Religion Image

But a Place of Everlasting Memory

And Images of a Time Past

I like to live in a little town Where the trees meet across the street, Where you wave your hand and say "Hello And when you go for a walk everyone asks if you want a ride; When the Post Office calls you because you haven't mailed out any Christmas cards this year!

And Finally The “Official” End of the World Picture