Jones, author of Magic City Gospel and the just-released dark // thing. The poetry Jones shared was based on food and food memory and was a contemplative start to a long day. Next, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Archibald’s presentation, “The Labor of Birmingham,” began by ...
I’m on Day 11 and despite what the internet told me (‘by Day 7, you should be feeling better!’) I still can’t be up and moving around for more than a few minutes without feeling a whoosh of heat in my face and that feeling that something might come up at any minute, or wi...
A few years later, I bought an extra chair one day when one of the original chairs lost a bolt. BF says he’ll fix that for us one day. I want one! This had a sign nearby that the dresser you see had been painted–customized, I think it said–and did not come with the Texas ...
From left to right, that’s The Beer Nut on the road looking at the wooden vats at Boon, the packing line at Crisp Maltings where its “100% grown, malted and packaged in Scotland. 90% of our farms are within 50 miles” as well as The Old Wellington in Manchester, England established...
As the city's economy has declined, there have been more and more vacant lots and abandoned properties. Detroit urbanites are transforming those blighted areas into thriving city farms to feed themselves and poor people in the city [source: McIntire-Strasburg]. Not all cities have huge expanse...
Anyway, all these snakes reflect a part of this North Virginia countryside – Along with the country living, pastoral beauty, farms, woods, wineries, mountains and streams, a history of violence, death, pain, and suffering are also baked into the pie ––– ...
They had dinner parties all the time, and my sisters and I were prep cooks, sous-chefs, dishwashers, and coat check girls. I was one of those kids who daydreamed in class, and spent most of my time doodling. I would write and illustrate books, even creating menus for breakfast in ...
an association of those in agriculture that still exists today. In 1910 the majority of these people were owners of family farms. The article suggests that Western farmers were most advanced in their thinking, having already embraced the automobile and recognizing how it improved their lives and ...
Having said that, the other side of the coin is that people, having worked on farms their entire life, will, more often than not, leave the farm and go work in a sweatshop for pennies a day, if that’s an option that presents itself. TXRed says: September 16, ...
and Dorothy would pick him up and set him upon his feet again, while he joined her in laughing merrily at his own mishap. The farms were not nearly so well cared for here as they were farther back. There were fewer houses and fewer fruit trees, and the farther they went the more dis...