PEPPERJELLY.ORG

This website is chronicling a Rural Studio Thesis Project: The building of the Alabama Rural Heritage Center. Five Auburn University students are designing, renovating and constructing a 5,000 square foot facility to be used by the center. The process began in August 2003 and will continue till mid-2004.

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ALABAMA RURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION

Here in Thomaston we have so much of what makes small town life so attractive: good neighbors, tree-shaded homes, a leisurely place, and starry night skies undimmed by bright city lights...But those bright lights have lured away many of our young people to the cities where jobs are. At the Alabama Rural Heritage Center we are attempting to grow our own industry by helping to develop products that can be created in rural Alabama, and by finding markets for those products.

RURAL STUDIO

The mission of the Rural  Studio is to enable each participating student to cross the threshold of misconceived opinions to create/design/build and to allow students to put their educational values to work as citizens of a community. The Rural Studio seeks solutions to the needs of the community within the community's own context, not from outside it.