At home in the heartland

At the end of October, more than 100 journalists from across the United States descended upon Elizabethtown, Ky., just south of Louisville.

What was the big story? There wasn’t any.

The journalists were simply doing the same thing they’ve done for so many years: getting together to document daily life in a town as a means to cultivate their story-telling skills. This week-long summit, called Mountain Workshops, is run by Western Kentucky University, a school known for its photojournalism program.