Source: Patrick Woodie, NEWS & OBSERVER, 5/25/18



"This county is my heart and soul. I am here because I chose to be here. I've made my home here, raised my family here, and I'm going to make every effort to stay." We heard this inspiring quote on the last day of the Rural Center’s Rural Road Trip—a year-long, 80-county adventure to meet with a diverse sample of local leaders in each of the rural counties we serve. A small-business owner in Greene County encapsulated on that last day what we heard in towns from Murphy to Nags Head (that’s farther than Manteo) over the past year.

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