The school sits in this rugged town between Detroit and Chicago, where the economy is not what it once was and crime is not a stranger.
Her mission, Ms. Smith said, is simple: "How do we connect theater with the various communities within the world that we live?" She got high marks for doing just that at the Perseverance Theater, which she founded and ran for nearly 20 years in Juneau, Alaska, a rugged town in the shadow of a glacier.
There are many open-air restaurants popping up in towns like Santa Teresa serving fresh catches of the day, lots of greens and higher calibre dishes than one might expect from a rugged little town.
Ventura is an iconic place, a once rugged beach town known for its citrus fruit farming and local surf spots, so often overshadowed by its big neighbor, Los Angeles. .
His first job was managing a Penney store in Picher, Okla., then a rugged frontier mining town.
Although communications are difficult because of heavy precipitation and rugged relief, the town serves as a trade and export centre for local agricultural products such as hides, coffee, and tobacco.
But while Tofino's new reputation has certainly helped fuel the hot market, it was another incident that first propelled this rugged, left-leaning town to the front pages.
The village is still a place untouched by Citarella or the pool-blue awning of Tiffany & Company, a rugged fisherman's town where shark-fishing competitions are promoted on signs near the entrance to the village.
In the latest of a string of self-immolation protests against Chinese policies, a 19-year-old Tibetan monk set himself on fire on Monday in the rugged western Chinese town of Aba, the advocacy group Free Tibet said in an e-mailed statement.
At the end of the set, Holcomb duets with Jean Ritchie, a singer and dulcimer player from Viper, Kentucky (another rugged little coal town, just northwest of Daisy), on "Wandering Boy," an unaccompanied ballad with a melody vaguely similar to "Man of Constant Sorrow".
During the movie's first half we appear to be seeing what he and his crew have spent their time on while waiting for "those people" to arrive: documentary, or documentary-style, footage shot in rugged Portuguese hill towns during the vacation month of August.
