Sentences with phrase «rural folks from»

They are rural folks from Oklahoma who lose their farm in the dustbowl years of the «30s and trek to California to look for a new life.

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Rogers» folk rootedness emanates from a childhood love of nature and the outdoors, having grown up in rural Maryland.

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

But do the brains of city dwellers function any differently from those of rural folk?

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.

Highlights include Young Galaxy's minimalist take on «Open Your Heart,» the Rural Alberta Advantage's folked - out version of «Live to Tell,» and the Acorn's clattering synth - rock rendition of «White Heat,» a standout cut from the original album that, save the James Cagney sample, is completely reinvented and nearly unrecognizable from the Material Girl's version.

First published in 1976, and taking its name from a collection of Japanese rural folk legends, Tales of Tono is a compact little volume composed of black - and - white photo diptychs and spreads that were shot in the countryside of northern Honshu, Japan.

When writing his seminal work, «The Souls of Black Folk,» civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois created a series of data visualizations about black advancement in the United States — from circular charts that show taxable property owned by African Americans to others that tracked city - versus - rural populations.

They have been caught out before (see our post here) and ignored the real experiences of annoyance from rural folk unfortunate enough to be turbine neighbours (see our Experience page here).

We heard from folks in Idaho, Alaska, and Washington state on the need for elected officials to support — and Planned Parenthood health centers to provide — reproductive healthcare in rural communities.