Sentences with phrase «from small rural towns»

He has been a part of the growth of Camarillo from a small rural town of some 3,000 to the wonderful city it is today.

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«I'm originally from Arkansas, grew up in a small rural town there.

Distance keeps me from going except for twice a year or so, but my brother in law has a small church of around 50 members in a tiny rural town.

Nostalgia for the religious traditions of rural and small - town America forms part of the appeal of popular evangelists from Billy Sunday to Billy Graham.

Berry agrees, but one wonders if he would ever admit that his own partisan thumos in defense of the land has not itself become a commodity to be sold on a market for urban types who feel alienated from their own small town and rural backgrounds.

I described it this way to the bishops in New Orleans: «the retreat from marriage is now spreading into the bedrock of Middle America: that is, small towns, rural communities, and outer suburbs across America.

Yet his world is so stereotyped that we could choose one from an urban, suburban, small town, or rural church, anywhere from Maine to California and from college age to retirement, and find great similarities.

Early primary polls showed that his supporters were more likely than voters overall to be poor, white, without higher education, and from rural counties or small towns.

Apart from the handful who were born in Ashland, they'd moved from Homer or Chicago or Coronado Island, in the first or third or ninth grade, reared in trailers or at friends» houses or in homes with hot tubs, the sons of teachers and attorneys and single mothers who had chosen to go back - to - the - land in a small town: population 15,000, liberal and rural, five crowded elementary schools.

Deborah Rassi and her family from Staten Island, N.Y., have been in the small, rural town of New Milford, Conn., for three days.

Patients in small towns can save thousands of dollars in health care costs if their local rural hospital is part of a tele - emergency room network, according to a new study from the University of Iowa.

The transformation of this self - described shy boy from a small town in rural China to Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University and Member of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey is bracketed between those two vastly different circumstances.

And while it's possible to find charm in almost all these places, we found the highlights of our trip in the small port towns and rural farmlands of southern Ontario... ruins of an Indian village dating from the 1500's.

You can find single actresses in rural areas or small towns unless she's different from other celebrities out there.

A beat exploring the intersection between urban and rural life, culture, and politics, Siegler has recently brought listeners and readers to a timber town in Idaho that lost its last sawmill just days before the 2016 election, as well as to small rural towns in Nebraska where police are fighting an influx in recreational marijuana coming from nearby Colorado cities.

Brooklyn tells the story of Eilis Lacey who emigrates from a small town in rural Ireland to New York in the 1950s in the pursuit of love and a new life.

Born into rural poverty and servitude, Gaines manages, through diligent work and an ingratiating manner towards white folk, to move from a small - town inn to a high - class hotel in Washington, DC, where he comes to the notice of a White House staff recruiter.

Set in the 1950's, The Dressmaker is a bittersweet comedy about a glamorous young woman who returns, after many years in Europe, to her small home town in rural Australia in order to right some wrongs from the past.

Jasper Jones (Film Movement), adapted from Craig Silvey's best - selling coming - of - age novel, is the story of Charlie Bucktin (Levi Miller), a bookish 14 - year - old boy who lives in fictional Corrigan, a small rural Australian town.

You can see it in Steven Soderbergh's experimental «Bubble» from 2006, a love triangle set in a small - town doll factory featuring non-actors, and in Zhang Yimou's 2000 drama «Not One Less,» about the struggles of schoolchildren in a rural Chinese village played by... schoolchildren in a rural Chinese village.

A zombie outbreak of extraterrestrial origin strikes rural Australia in this ambitious and successful debut from the Spierig brothers -LRB--RRB-, which mines humor in small - town personalities placed in unusual circumstances.

«So, I took the royalties from the first edition of my book, In the Middle, and I cashed in my teacher retirement and built this small school in a small town - Edgecomb, in rural Maine, which is near where I live.

As the election recedes from view, let us not fall back into our bad habits, and forget the rural and small town kids who need our help, too.

Still short of votes, Jindal turned to conservative white Democrats from the state's small towns and rural areas.

Students who graduate from high schools located in the South or in a rural community or small town are less likely to attend college than their peers in other settings.

Schools in the study ranged from 28 - 92 % poverty, and included four rural, four small town, and one suburban school, as well as five inner - city schools from three large metropolitan districts.

The 11 project schools were from eight different school districts spread across a rural area in the southeastern U.S.; an eastern city; two small towns in the Midwest; a large city in the Midwest; and a large city in the southwestern U.S..

Johnson County Library — Overland Park, KS Year: 2005 Amount: Grant: National Award for Library Service A myriad of successful programs that benefit all areas of Johnson County, Kansas, from the suburbs to small towns and rural communities, distinguish the work of the Johnson County Library.

Immediately, this step resolves the concern from many librarians that a major city's rather large library system paying the same price as a more rural, «small town» library.

My mother's family comes from a very small town in southeastern Kansas and although no one in the family lives there anymore, the memory of rural life is still strong in my family.

Since moving from a larger city to a very small rural town, I already had a good idea how the town and people of Kiewarra would be presented.

Within these pages, a desperate asylum seeker is pacing the hallways of Sydney's notorious Villawood detention centre; a seven - year - old Sudanese boy has found solace in a patchwork bike; an enraged black militant is on the war - path through the rebel squats of 1960s Brixton; a Mississippi housewife decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her son from small - town ignorance; a young woman leaves rural Jamaica in search of her destiny; and a Sydney schoolgirl loses her way.

A taut, suspenseful novel of small - town secrets set during a drought in rural Australia, The Dry follows federal agent Aaron Falk who is called back to the town where he grew up and asked to investigate the murder - suicide of his best friend from high school.

This small town east of Denver seems to have little to distinguish it from other rural communities of the Great Plains.

The needs of big - city libraries, intended for scholars and other researchers, not just the public at large, are rather different from those of small - town and rural libraries — especially in poorer communities.

Despite its rural location, Finca Ses Dragones is only a short drive from the village of Sant Llorenc and the small town of Arta, where you can visit both a prehistoric village and a modern market.

Despite this peaceful rural location, the city of Perugia and small towns of Umbertide, Preggio and Castel Rigone are a short drive away from the villa.

The man Rockwell, who spent the majority of his life living in rural and small town New England, was born on February 3, 1894 in New York City, a descendant of John Rockwell (1588 - 1662) who immigrated to America from Somerset, England around 1635.

Ballen's well - known works include the photographic series «Dorps, Small Towns of South Africa» (1982 — 1986), «Platteland, Images from Rural South Africa» (1986 — 1994), «Outland» (1995 — 2000), «Shadow Chamber» (2000 — 2004) and «Boarding House» (2004 — 2008).

During the 1930s, these artists documented and depicted American cities, small towns, and rural landscapes; some did so as a way to return to a simpler time away from industrialization, whereas others sought to make a political statement and lent their art to revolutionary and radical causes.

As someone who moved from a megalopolis to very large cities to (now) a rural town smaller than your hometown, I've reached the same conclusion as you.

By combining green construction technology, affordability, a resident work program, community gardens, food forests, greenhouses, playgrounds, daycare facilities, all set in a beautiful rural region just 2 minutes from the town of Lantier (and just 1 hour from Montreal), Habitat Multi Générations (HMG) is creating an ideal setting for tiny / small housers that will hopefully inspire many other communities.

The legal markets in Kentucky range from larger towns such as Louisville, Frankfort, Lexington, Ashland and Elizabethtown to smaller towns and countless rural communities.

The legal markets here in Oakland County Michigan range from Detroit — one of the largest metro areas in the country, to smaller towns and rural areas.

Previous Slaw blog entries have outlined the multitude of distance - related obstacles that prevent many rural and small - town Canadians from finding quick and affordable resolutions to their legal problems.

However, small differences were observed in the frequency of bullying others (χ29 = 19.13, P =.03): 2 % to 3 % fewer suburban youth reported participation in moderate bullying, and 3 % to 5 % more rural youth reported ever bullying than youth from town, suburban, and urban areas (data not shown).

Of note, the report indicates that more buyers are moving to the burbs (52 percent, up two percent from last year), with 20 percent buying in a small town, 14 percent in an urban area, 13 percent in a rural area, and 2.0 percent at a resort / recreation area.

Learn how commercial real estate development in smaller towns and rural areas can benefit from foresight.