Dearfield: A Dream Lost to Drought and Depression
It’s a story with a simple, but remarkable, beginning. In 1910, a…
Gilliard Farms: Snapshots in Time from Black Farmers in America
Down on the southern Georgia coast, there was a time when you…
A Town Named Audacious and African American Homesteaders
“Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in…
The Exodusters: The Roots of African American Homesteading
History’s ironies never cease to amaze me. The same day that Abraham…
An Empire That Stood Alone: Black American Homesteaders in Wyoming
There were a lot of reasons for Americans to head West after…
The Blair Colony: Freed Slaves Homesteading in the Dakota Territory
In the space of a few short months, two momentous and highly…
He Wrote the Book – Oscar Micheaux: The Homesteader
Oscar Micheaux walked the walk, talked the talk, wrote the book, and…
The Humble Spud: From Inca to Ireland to Idaho
Let’s be honest. It really doesn’t look like something you’d want to…
Give a Fig: New Facts on the Oldest Cultivated Plant
My connection with figs began early. I would have been no older…
Homemade Applesauce: Accept No Substitutes!
My husband Donnie was raised near the Brushy Mountains of North Carolina,…