Skin color is a non-issue for Abby Reinhardt, a little girl in Kentucky with an adopted sister and brother from Liberia. View

Former nurse Spencer Sullivan copes with life after a tragic medical error left him a quadriplegic. (LAT) View

Alvin Stamper defends his four-time tobacco-chopping title in Kentucky, cutting and spearing nearly 1,500 stalks per hour. By hand. (POYi winner) View

The Best Videojournalism Stories of 2009 ... Celebrating excellence in video, journalism and storytelling. View

Dick and Bonnie Cain are determined to live in a 19th-century world of solitude without any modern technology. (Texas Country Reporter) View

Posthumously discovered photos of a long-ago holiday parade help an artist discover her dad's secret passion, and cherish his memory. (Boing Boing) View

A sexually abused boy and his mother recount the anguish they suffered at the hands of a trusted teacher when he was in kindergarten. (LAT) View

Edwin Shneidman, a 90-year-old pioneer in suicide prevention, contemplates his own demise. (LAT) View

Haitian activist Rea Dol isn't waiting for outside help to feed and care for a poor and neglected Port-au-Prince neighborhood. (NYT) View

A 9-year-old musician takes center stage in Washington State's Old-Time Music community, even to her own parents' bemused amazement. (The Olympian) View

Serendipity brings together two 89-year-old men in L.A. for the first time since elementary school in pre-Hitler Germany. (Jewish Journal) View

Audio ecologist Gordon Hempton records and preserves America's vanishing quiet spaces, and teaches how we can benefit from listening to the silence. (Newsweek) View