At first glance, it is a mystery how the prosperously rustic town of Ojai, California, came to host one of the world's great festivals of modern music.
In the 1960s and '70s Andorra la Vella was transformed from a rustic town into a busy commercial centre catering to shoppers and tourists.
The plant is operated by Xcel Energy and is hidden high in the mountains overlooking Georgetown, a rustic town about 45 miles west of Denver.
The resort sits on real estate worth tens of millions of dollars, and expensive renovations there were a symbol of Montauk's transition from a rustic town to a haven for the wealthy.
THE rustic town of Pound Ridge, in eastern Westchester, is currently the only town in the county that permits hunting for culling purposes, with bows; it does so on four town-owned parcels totaling about 100 acres.
After spending years in the rustic town of Stonington, Me., turning a fly-by-night operation into one of the most sought after seafood businesses in America, she now only summers there.
But even the gods would have been pushed to conjure up a harvest as big as the one claimed by a group of olive growers around this tiny, rustic town.
Left unresolved was the government's claim that Bundy owes more than $1.1m in fees and penalties for letting some 900 cows trespass for 20 years on arid rangeland of scrub brush, mesquite, cheat grass and yucca near the rustic town of Bunkerville, about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
Just north of the Hefer Valley in the Carmel Mountains is the charming rustic town of Zichron Ya'akov.
Betsy Garrold, 63, lives on 50 acres amid dairy farms in Knox, a rustic town of 900 in Waldo County, where the Lyme incidence rate is three times the state average.
With nothing to do and nowhere to go, she heads back to her rustic home town (the fictitious town of Mainland) and to her late parents' now empty house there.
