Homesteaders from Across the Waves: Immigrant Homesteaders
While the question of immigration is on the boil in America, and…
Music Carriers of the Southern Appalachians: Sharing History Through Song
If you’ve ever traveled through the southern Appalachian Mountains, you will immediately…
Rotten Tomatoes: Man vs. Monsoon
In May, my husband Donnie planted 31 tomato plants, everything from Bush…
From Starvation to Frozen Dinners in a Few Thousand Years: The History of Refrigeration
It was strawberry season again. Strawberries are so good and so inexpensive…
Give a Fig – New Facts on the Oldest Cultivated Plant
My connection with figs began early. I would have been no older…
Mollie Dorsey Sanford: Frontier Wife, Frontier Life
An intrepid, independent soul, Mollie Dorsey was a homesteader in her teens,…
House Gods – Building a Book, Building a Home: Jim Kristofic
Visionary and value shaper, Jim Kristofic grew up on a Navajo Reservation…
An Empire That Stood Alone: Black American Homesteaders in Wyoming
There were a lot of reasons for Americans to head West after…