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Everyone needs a hero and a friend.

I had a lot of heroes when I was a kid. Some fictional, some real. And as I recall their stories, the one magical quality they all possessed was their ability to turn darkness into light.
-- Eileen Zuber

Acknowledgments

The editors would like to thank everyone who contributed to Community. In particular, without Beverly Henshaw, Willie Mae Wilkinson, and the other members of Ken Wilkinson's family, this publication would have been impossible. We also would like to thank all of Ken's former students and friends who contributed material. We hope that your students continue his legacy. Finally, thanks to all of the artists who agreed to let us use their work. We spent a great deal of time searching the Web for appropriate photographs and paintings, and thank you for your generosity.

Hero

KEN WILKINSON, HERO AND FRIEND -by Elieen Zuber

Symposium

THE DOING OF RURAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: A Celebration in Honor of Kenneth P. Wilkinson

Technology

A brief essay on the history of the internet and why it is not a perfect publishing world.

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Overall table of contents.

Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development

  • Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development Overview
  • Community Capacity Building
    • Community Capacity Building Overview
    • Resources for Addressing "Brain Drain" from Rural Communities
    • Community: A Different Biography
    • Social Capital
    • Professional Development in Community Development
    • NERCRD-sponsored Funding Opportunities
    • Impacts of Northeast Community Development Programs
    • Dataset: Economic resilience of US counties during the Great Recession
    • First Impressions
    • La​tent In​no​va​tion
  • Regional Economic Development
    • Regional Economic Development Overview
    • Resources for Practitioners
    • Resources for Researchers
    • Targeting Regional Economic Development
    • Key Community Development Contacts
    • Business Retention and Expansion
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    • Local and Regional Food Systems Overview
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    • 2017 AFRI Project Directors Meeting presentation files
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    • Land Use in the Northeast U.S.
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