Virginia Roots Alliance  Our region is a place where settlers planted the seeds of entrepreneurship in the early days of our nation.  Today, we are six counties and one city where this spirit of innovation flourishes. We grew as a place where farming and timber fueled the growth of the Commonwealth of Virginia into one of the...

Ben Muldrow & Hannah Nichols ventured north to Lake Orion, Michigan in Sept 2012 to conduct a community branding technical visit. Simply Marcella, Lake Orion, Michigan Dragon Chalk drawing on the sidewalks downtown after Dragon on the Lake. Activating the street with a vintage bike and a screen...

Ben Muldrow joined Randy Wilson, Andy Kalback, Jeremy Murdock, and the fabulous Rachael Carter in Rolling Fork, Mississippi in September to develop a vision for the community. It was amazing. Here is a little dose of what the Deep Delta has to offer. The world has come to know a very special place called the Mississippi Delta,...

We are Canton, Mississippi. We are Canton. Between the Pearl and Big Black Rivers, immigrants and farmers were lured here by the lush and fertile soil. Around the corners of our square, we have woven a story of our people, the roots of which are culturally diverse— businesses built by immigrants from far away places, legends...

  We are Point Pleasant, West Virginia.   Located at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, Point Pleasant’s strategic position made it an important location in the history of our Great Nation.  It was first discovered by the French in 1749, and became an early frontier between British settlers and Native...