Rural America is becoming home to a burgeoning LGBT community, though it isn’t always easy.

The poultry industry produces six billion tons of chicken feathers every year, most of it destined to end up in a landfill. But recently chicken feathers have ended up in everything from art projects to running shoes to car manufacturing.

Robust and kindly, and sporting a bearish, wooly coat not unlike the flocks they devotedly guarded, the Old English Sheepdog once upon a time ruled the rolling hills and pastures of Great Britain.

As the temperatures plummeted to nearly 25 below zero, the sky scuffed black, Sylvia Burgos Toftness climbed into warm clothing, thick gloves, lined overalls and a hooded sweatshir...

First appearing in the U.S. in the 1700s and known as ’slops,’ overalls became the uniform of the working stiff. Over time, their baggy silhouette served as an emblem worn by railroaders and depression era farmers — as recalled in Grant Wood’s American Gothic. Later, they became emblematic of 1960’s hippies, college students of the ’70s, and even rappers, hip hop and other recording artists, who wore them with one shoulder unfastened.

How did the cowbell become, you know, “more cowbell”?

But that emotion was more complicated than simple pride. As a voiceover of Paul Harvey's 1978 "So God Made A Farmer” speech played, image after image (taken by 10 male photograph...

A white wooden sign with hand-painted, sky blue letters strangely proclaims: "Fresh Shrimp For Sale, Sat 9-12.” Drivers slow down or back up to see if perhaps their eyes have dec...