Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you see here? You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article and receive more conversations like this in your inbox each week. The post  Q&A: Keith Pilapil Lesmeister appeared first on The Daily Yonder.

Starr Lodge Four of us sleep in borrowed beds at Starr Lodge; the fifth, our host — the one who left our Pennsylvania town decades ago for northern Maine — sleeps in his own with his wife.   Before the alarm rings, the truck is already loaded: two canoes strapped down, chairs wedged in, decoys packed, guns The post The Rush at Rush Pond   appeared first on The Daily Yonder.

Quiet and contemplative, the Netflix film "Train Dreams" offers a moving meditation on how a changing world affects us all. The post ‘Train Dreams’ Tracks Story of Rural Progress and Loss in the 20th Century appeared first on The Daily Yonder.