Women bootleggers put men to shame in the days of Prohibition. Women moonshine smugglers were not unheard of; in fact,…
"For I, methinks, till I grow old, As fair before me shall behold, As I do now, the Cabin small,…
It was tough to be Black in the U.S. in the era of “reconstruction” which some people frankly think of…
“The days of wilderness adventure are not past! The pioneer spirit is not dead!” These stirring words were written by…
There has always been a female face to agriculture: the tough homesteader pioneer woman on the frontier; the milkmaid; the…
"Two days after Thanksgiving, hospitable Anna Eleanor Roosevelt…motored in a White House car from Washington to visit the Tygart Valley…
Fine. I’ll admit it. This is a book that my husband bought for himself, having become a fan of Sharon…
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…
If you’ve ever traveled through the southern Appalachian Mountains, you will immediately understand, even from the window of your car,…
I’d like to talk to you about how to handle an emergency childbirth. Of a human. You might be thinking,…
She was an octogenarian, an artist, a naturalist, a visionary, a farm wife, and a mother of ten children. She…