Rural through a Different Lens seeks to complicate the oversimplified schemata of rural North Carolina’s history by holding a lens to the members of rural communities tasked both with educating people about their region’s history and forging a continued path forward.

Learn more about the first iteration of this oral and visual storytelling experience focused on the West Marion Community Forum, a community group that affects local change by mobilizing and engaging West Marion’s residents and the surrounding neighborhoods, about structural racism. Funded in part by the NC Humanities Council.

Rural Through a Different Lens: Episode One: West Marion

Rural Through a Different Lens: Episode Two: Dawna Goode

Rural Through a Different Lens: Episode Three: Paula Swepson

Nonprofit striving to improve rural NC communities with innovative programs that expand business opportunities, embolden entrepreneurs and build leaders.

NC Rural Center