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Imagery of Community Slide 2 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 Slide 3 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 Slide 4 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 Slide 5 Power of Imagery - Redeux Slide 6 Imagery The Dark Side Slide 7 & Darker Side Slide 8 Access to Rural Image North America Has Its Vast Panoramas, Wilderness, Public Lands, And Sense of Becoming The Route to Europes Assets is Through Their Cities ------- The Gateway to Americas Crown Jewels is Through Our Small Towns and Rural Areas Slide 9 Community Imagery at a Glance Slide 10 Vanishing Images of Rural Schools Slide 11 Nature Sells Slide 12 Of Remote Places Slide 13 And Small Places Slide 14 And Farms Slide 15 Open Spaces & Crops Slide 16 And Mountain Meadows Slide 17 Working Ranches Slide 18 And Fence Lines Slide 19 Magnificent Panoramas Slide 20 Idyllic Lives of Noble Rural People Slide 21 Hunting & Sports aka Nuns With Guns Slide 22 And Waiting Opportunities Slide 23 Road Side Attractions Slide 24 Which Way to go to Find Image? Slide 25 With Rugged Individualism Slide 26 A Wonderful Sense of the Past Slide 27 And, of Course, Rural People Slide 28 With Restorative Places for Leisure 0 Slide 29 But, There is Another Side to Rural Rural People Compose 49 percent of the worlds population. You cant get here from there Slide 30 A Side We Dont Always Wish to Acknowledge Slide 31 But, I Though That Most Poverty was Urban? Slide 32 A Poverty of Human Suffering & Misery Slide 33 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 Slide 34 Rural is Host to Poverty of the Spirit Slide 35 And of the Soul Slide 36 Where Loneliness & Despair Are the Rule Slide 37 It is a Place Where Destruction Come Easily Slide 38 But God, What a Land of Great Contrasts Slide 39 Even a Little Bit of That Old Time Religion Image Slide 40 But a Place of Everlasting Memory Slide 41 And Images of a Time Past Slide 42 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! Slide 43 And Finally The Official End of the World Picture