Oscar Micheaux walked the walk, talked the talk, wrote the book, and made the movie; he was perhaps more than anyone, deserving of the title: The…
History’s ironies never cease to amaze me. The same day that Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, on January 1, 1863, the Homestead Act went…
Down on the southern Georgia coast, there was a time when you could say the soil was rich and the people were poor. Matthew Raiford…
In the early 1980s, I went to Sussex, England to study small-scale agriculture at a Rudolf Steiner center called Emerson College. The course trained people…
While the question of immigration is on the boil in America, and while the current season is one that should invoke charity, not disparity, I…
The subtitle of this article could be “Don’t Do What I Did.” Well, don’t do what I did wrong, anyway, just do what I did…
If you’ve ever traveled through the southern Appalachian Mountains, you will immediately understand, even from the window of your car, that it would have been…
The year was 1886. Sears Roebuck helped homesteading happen quite by accident, but it happened at a time when the entrepreneurial and inventive spirit of…
A thoughtful young person in 2019 might ask, “What did people do before they had… [fill in the blank: cellphones, computers, netbooks, smart watches]…” And…
There are still those who think he was a myth, which is not so surprising considering the many ways he has been depicted in our…
A Tribute to John Barleycorn John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your…
In May, my husband Donnie planted 31 tomato plants, everything from Bush to Rutgers, from stalk to vine, in cages, on espaliers, and just trailing…