Prairie Pickings is about Gainesville's movers and shakers, its artists and local businesses, sprawling chains and encroaching development. It's about lifetime residents and transient stopovers, the well off along with the unhoused, the empowered with the disenfranchised. Each story offers some aspect of Gainesville I — and potentially you — have never considered before. This fine-scale sense of place is juxtaposed with a bird's-eye-view of what it means to be the resident of a small city that exists in a universe so big that light from its furthest edges will never reach our eyes.
