MOTHER JONES BY E-MAIL

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Family at the Eagle's Nest on a Saturday afternoon, Coppock, Iowa. (2006)

Most parts of Iowa are still an hour’s drive or more—when the weather is cooperating—from what most urbanites would consider civilization. Call it what you like. Brain drain. Rural flight. Either way, young people who grew up in the country, especially the best educated and most ambitious, are packing their garrulousness and never coming back. Continue »

Listen to the photographer talk about growing up in Iowa:

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