# MediaStorm publishes Driftless: Stories from Iowa - Host: [mediastorm.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/mediastorm.com/) - Saved: June 4, 2009 (2009-06-04T20:50:19Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ed3cff6e3f60/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ed3cff6e3f60.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) Driftless: Stories from Iowa by Danny Wilcox Frazier Life in Iowa can be punishing. Many Iowans expend their lives sweating over soil and spilling the blood of livestock; they endure the hardships associated with a life inextricably bound to the ups and downs of nature. Today, those challenges and a shift in our nations economy have pushed the youth of rural communities to migrate to the metropolises of America. Those left in the wake of this out-migration continue their lives, seemingly unchanged from the generations that preceded them, and entombed in obscurity. The tension of contemporary rural life plays out here: the struggle of a family farm to continue, disenfranchised youth, the slaughterhouse, migrant labor, and the aged fading from Iowas mythical landscape. Through their stories we gain insight to a way of life that is disappearing, a culture that could be lost forever. As community continues to be homogenized in zones of urban sprawl across the globe, we must consider all that we are losingdevelopment should not come at the expense of more fragile communities. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [Questions on shooting video with DSLRs? Check out Dan Chungs DSLR News Shooter Blog](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5c726f8e21e9/) (mediastorm.com, September 30, 2009) ## Saved the same week - [Canon EOS 5D Mark II 21.1MP Digital SLR Camera Body for $2,500 + free shipping](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6731073ac61f/) (9to5mac.com, June 4, 2009) - [Google Opens Up Internal Speed Tool To Developers](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/510512331e73/) (techcrunch.com, June 4, 2009) - [Three Papers Sign Up for 'WSJ Sunday'](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/46278194a7dc/) (editorandpublisher.com, June 4, 2009) - [Time says Twitter will change business](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c51b4c37f589/) (venturebeat.com, June 4, 2009) - [Another iPhone 3 mockup](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c34286d9b189/) (9to5mac.com, June 5, 2009) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://mediastorm.com/blog/2009/05/19/mediastorm-publishes-driftless-stories-from-iowa/