Commentary: The Birth of a Rural Summit

Radically Rural, a two-day focus on rural challenges and opportunity that’s staged in Keene, New Hampshire, in its second year drew over 600 people from 24 states to talk about such things as getting more charging stations for electric cars, how to find financing for farms that are too small for consolidated banks, and how Read more…



A ‘Radically Rural’ approach to sustaining communities

Summit in Keene will look at solutions to problems, issues facing small cities, towns September 12, 2019  Mary Ann Kristiansen Rural Americans are confident that major problems facing their local communities can be solved in five years, but most think they cannot be fixed without outside help.  So says the 2018 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Read more…


Isele to lead ‘experieneurship’ session at Radically Rural summit next month

An international leader in harnessing baby-boomers’ strengths and encouraging intergenerational cooperation will visit Keene for this year’s Radically Rural summit. The second annual two-day conference in September aims to address the qualities and challenges that define small-town communities. It’s co-hosted by The Sentinel and the Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship. Slated to speak at one Read more…


Radically Rural Summit Lands Two National Sponsors, Two Major Local Supporters

Two national foundations leading in the areas of entrepreneurship and journalism are backing the Radically Rural summit, a two-day conference in Keene’s downtown focusing on strengthening small cities and towns. This support — from the Ewing Marion Kauffmann Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation — joins major grants from C&S Wholesale Read more…


Expert on Small Communities Tapped to Send off Second Radically Rural Summit

For the second annual Radically Rural summit this fall, the director of a Texas-based think tank and an expert on rural communities will deliver the conference’s closing remarks. Hosted by The Sentinel and the Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship, Radically Rural is a two-day convention that explores the qualities and challenges of small-town communities. Last Read more…


Calling All Rural Leaders, Founders, and Trailblazers!

            Join 800 other rural leaders, thinkers, and doers on September 19 and 20 for Radically Rural! Broad shifts in demographics, communications, technology, economic development, and personal values are generating creative responses from innovative thinkers, change-makers, entrepreneurs, and community-builders who love their towns and know their advantages. Come and learn what Read more…



20 Reasons to Attend Radically Rural

September 19 & 20 | Keene, NH     1. The Summit is hosted across Keene’s picturesque downtown The Radically Rural Summit is held across eight locations surrounding Keene’s quintessential New England Main Street. Keene is located in the heart of the Monadnock Region in the southwestern corner of New Hampshire, home to winding country Read more…



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