1. Imagery of Community

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

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

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

5. Power of Imagery - Redeux

6. Imagery – The Dark Side

7. & Darker Side

8. 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

9. Community Imagery at a Glance

10. Vanishing Images of Rural Schools

11. Nature Sells

12. Of Remote Places

13. And Small Places

14. And Farms

15. Open Spaces & Crops

16. And Mountain Meadows

17. Working Ranches

18. And Fence Lines

19. Magnificent Panoramas

20. Idyllic Lives of Noble Rural People

21. Hunting & Sports aka Nuns With Guns

22. And Waiting Opportunities

23. Road Side Attractions

24. Which Way to go to Find Image?

25. With Rugged Individualism

26. A Wonderful Sense of the Past

27. And, of Course, Rural People

28. With Restorative Places for Leisure 0

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

30. A Side We Don’t Always Wish to Acknowledge

31. But, I Though That Most Poverty was Urban?

32. A Poverty of Human Suffering & Misery

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

34. Rural is Host to Poverty of the Spirit

35. And of the Soul

36. Where Loneliness & Despair Are the Rule

37. It is a Place Where Destruction Come Easily

38. But God, What a Land of Great Contrasts

39. Even a Little Bit of That Old Time Religion Image

40. But a Place of Everlasting Memory

41. And Images of a Time Past

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!

43. And Finally The “Official” End of the World Picture