In this holiday season, gifts take center stage, for better or worse. We often give and receive gifts that are curious, strange, or useless, as well as those we genuinely desire. Sometimes, however, we get a gift that we never anticipated, one that we appreciate in part because its very surprise.
This fall, the Kansas News Service, a consortium of public radio stations, gave Kansans such a gift a podcast series that addressed the decline of rural Kansas. Hosted by veteran journalist Jim McLean, My Fellow Kansans (do an internet search) explores the century-long…
