This case study will lay out how two small communities (Cedar Falls and Hawarden, Iowa) in rural America systematically raised and responded to issues related to the Information Superhighway and the telecommunications revolution in the 1990s. These communities persevered against the naysayers, the phone and cable industry, and in some cases against others in government who built roadblocks in their way. The result of their perseverance is a study in leadership in the Information Revolution and how these two communities created the on and off ramps to the Information Superhighway.