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How the Unions Saved the Future: the Story of the Reaper-binder
This is a story that was told to me by my father. It is by no means extraordinary, probably there are thousands of similar stories from across the world. Yet I believe it is significant in reminding us...
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Hillbilly Lasagna Update w/ Recipe
The secret to my famous Lasagna is the sauce and I learned all about making sauce from Phil. Until I met Phil, I thought that spaghetti sauce was made with cans – cans of tomatoes, cans of mushrooms...
View ArticleA Voice in a Flood
Some voices remind me of childhood. Mr. Walt Grayson was the local news voice since I was a little girl. Unknown to me I attended undergraduate school with his daughter who now works for Mississippi's...
View ArticleJoplin's Apocalypse Now
In a few hours, it will be exactly two weeks since a tornado ripped through my city and changed it forever.I was one of the “lucky ones.” The tornado missed the apartment complex where I live by about...
View ArticleThe Fierce Green Wallow Fire
A deep chesty bawl echoes from rimrock to rimrock, rolls down the mountain, and fades into the far blackness of the night. It is an outburst of wild defiant sorrow, and of contempt for all the...
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Summer Comes to the Kit House/Updated with photos
How do we know summer is here? Sunset dinner on the front porch. I sat out on our mail order Adirondack bench and thought, I want to remember every bit of this evening. I have never been more happy...
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Invisible waste (part 1): Water
Environmentally aware individuals are perpetually bombarded by the worst sort of false choice, one that's been drilled into us even by environmental activist organizations.You know the sort of false...
View ArticleA Vanishing Icon of Rural America: The Mail Pouch Barns
It's not news that the face of rural America has been undergoing great changes over the past couple of generations, but sometimes those changes take place slowly and almost imperceptibly, until one day...
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Allen West and Women
By now, you've likely heard about West's poutrage over Debbie Wasserman-Schultz telling the truth about him on the House floor yesterday. If you missed that, go here for the backstory, and here is his...
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Mountaintop Removal Mines Means Higher Poverty and Health Issues for Communities
A study released by West Virginia University has shown that communities near Mountaintop Removal mines has a higher concentration of poverty and health issues than other communities giving those who...
View ArticleFaylyn's Pots
Faylyn makes and sells pots at a road stand she built 52 years ago. Her artistry is designing and throwing the pots. Pots are sturdy and dependable.Faylyn's Spirit Graces each OneSpring just clicked...
View ArticleTumbleweed Clem
Clem is scared of everybody. He lives alone in a small dug out area under a bridge.People call him, Tumbleweed Clem, because the name fits him just fine.Clem is certainly unique in body, mind and...
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