small-town

Her LP is a narrative of troubled love and shattered small-town lives in which sparkly country songs sit alongside drones that conjure the hum of electrical lines snaking down a highway.

They come from villages, farming families and small-town hostels, with many learning the sport only in the past few years.

Questions multiplied, but one seemed more elusive than the rest: How did a baby-faced novice from small-town California dupe some of academia’s brightest minds?

Though we now lived in a city much larger than White Sulphur Springs or Marion or Bluefield, we felt everyone’s small-town love, care, and concern.

In 2024, that hope was pinned on Tim Walz, the flannel-wearing, “Midwestern nice” governor whose small-town roots were supposed to unlock the rural Midwest for a Harris–Walz victory.