Where we explore how people are fighting for the future of rural America and how writing it off hurts us all.
Hosted by George Goehl, To See Each Other complicates the narrative about rural and small town Americans in our most misunderstood, and often abandoned, communities. This season, George travels to Wisconsin to follow a small town fight for the future of a beloved county nursing home, setting the stage for a statewide battle to save it. Our belief: That when we see each other, we’ll understand that we can never give up on each other.
In North Carolina, we see friendships being forged in the face of centuries of racism; anti-racist organizing happening at the corner of Plantation and Corporation avenues; and meet a historical political candidate, a Black woman quite literally from the wrong side of the tracks, campaigning to co-govern with her community.
In Alamance County, Down Home North Carolina has been building a multi-racial grassroots movement against white supremacy. George talks to Brigid Flaherty, co-founder of Down Home North Carolina; Sugelema Lynch, a Latinx mother; Pat Rogers, a young white engineer; and Dreama Caldwell, who’s running to serve as Alamance County’s first Black woman Commissioner. For all of them, meeting the left-behind where they are is key to transforming the landscape. And it’s creating a new common identity that Alamance County can be proud of.
This episode features additional music by Jake and Sarah Owen.
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