What I’ve learned in conversations here and elsewhere, in Arrow Rock, Missouri, as part of an academic requirement, is that no matter where you go, Oklahoma, Georgia or Texas, small-town people ...

“The wildland-urban interface, or what we call WUI, that’s been here in Kern County for a long time,” said Chief Aaron Duncan ...

If outdoor adventure is more your style, Cedar City serves as an ideal base camp. Just minutes from town, you can hike among ...

For nature lovers, the nearby Spring Creek Canyon offers hiking trails along limestone cliffs and some of the best fly fishing in the eastern United States. The creek’s limestone-filtered waters ...

With summer fast approaching and the snow melting out, trail season is here. The town of Mountain Village is working on a few ...

Ritchey credits his parents for his sense of community giving. He grew up in a small town, Kurtwood, Mo., which he describes as being small enough that a “couple of 8 or 9 year olds can hop on ...

The Bastrop City Council approved the city’s future land use map after a lengthy discussion on the specifics of proposed land ...

This article originally appeared in the May 2025 issue of Town&Gown magazine. I recently had the honor of visiting Jimmy ...

It can be an ugly one, with hostile politics, ravaged small towns and ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ flags brandished on crumbling porches. But the staff at Benham Inn and Luigi’s are wrong.

In Concord, Vermont, sexton Bill Gilding is leading a transformation of the town’s cemeteries—digitizing records, engaging ...

Athens sprawls across the Attica Basin, a valley surrounded on three sides by mountain ranges and on the fourth by the Saronic Gulf. Constant expansion has introduced a sense of modernism to this ...