Carey grew up in rural Iowa, and began wrestling at age ten.

So candidates roam rural Iowa looking for straw votes by offering photo opportunities with pigs.

"We live in a very diverse society and rural Iowa is going to have to admit it," she said.

In 1991 Wolf moved to rural Iowa and began a writing workshop with neighboring farmers that ran for two winters.

The painting is one of Wood's regional works that features the agrarian life of rural Iowa.

The scene could have been a town hall in rural Iowa.

The network began as an educational tool for the state's schools; the goal was to open up opportunities for rural Iowa.

Citing his childhood in rural Iowa, he said: "You've got to know where I come from.

But of course nobody would think of such a thing because crime doesn't exist in rural Iowa.

For most of its history, Asbury was very small, much like hundreds of other towns in rural Iowa.