1.   Rural folks are often known for their downright speech, as they are generally not ones to beat around the bush.

2.   A few rural folk also walk the wall, offering tourists water, beer and souvenir books.

3.   But long before there were scientists and meteorologists with Doppler radar and supercomputers, generations of farmers and other rural folk were predicting the weather by observing nature.

4.   But the sun provides clean, renewable and decentralized power, an attractive option for rural folk who have waited for years for electricity to come to their areas.

5.   For rural folks, hunkering was a natural, comfortable resting position.

6.   In the countryside, farmers and rural folk are rising up against development, especially the construction of vacation homes on formerly pristine landscape.

7.   Long before there were meteorologists with Doppler radar, generations of farmers and other rural folk were predicting the weather by observing nature.

8.   One difference is that rural folks have less privacy.

9.   There I heard wisecracks about the uneducated rural folk who lived a few hours away.

10.   Toting a small Brownie box camera, she traveled Mississippi documenting the lives of the most impoverished and desperate black and white rural folk.