Oscar Micheaux walked the walk, talked the talk, wrote the book, and made the movie; he was perhaps more than…
History’s ironies never cease to amaze me. The same day that Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, on January 1,…
Down on the southern Georgia coast, there was a time when you could say the soil was rich and the…
In the early 1980s, I went to Sussex, England to study small-scale agriculture at a Rudolf Steiner center called Emerson…
While the question of immigration is on the boil in America, and while the current season is one that should…
The subtitle of this article could be “Don’t Do What I Did.” Well, don’t do what I did wrong, anyway,…
If you’ve ever traveled through the southern Appalachian Mountains, you will immediately understand, even from the window of your car,…
The year was 1886. Sears Roebuck helped homesteading happen quite by accident, but it happened at a time when the…
A thoughtful young person in 2019 might ask, “What did people do before they had… [fill in the blank: cellphones,…
There are still those who think he was a myth, which is not so surprising considering the many ways he…
A Tribute to John Barleycorn John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste…
In May, my husband Donnie planted 31 tomato plants, everything from Bush to Rutgers, from stalk to vine, in cages,…