The genus of Artemisia, consisting of over two hundred mostly aromatic plants was named in honor of the sister and wife of the Greek/Persian King…
Words like cold-blooded, venomous, slithery, and cunning come to mind. Not very many living creatures hold such a place of respect, awe, and downright fear…
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800-1842) also known by her Objibwa name, which is translated as "Woman of the Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky",…
"That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." It was July 20, 1969 and those words, spoken by Neil Armstrong when…
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…
I admit, I am very pro-Thanksgiving. What's not to like about Turkey Day? On what other holiday can we get together with family, spare a…
Homesteaders often enjoy looking back and learning how the old-timers did things. We look back at their lives as not necessarily easier, but more simple…
I was reading through some old books looking for information on this and that, when I came across THIS: maggots as medicine. But wait—there's more.…
A couple weeks ago I was vacationing in the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest National Parks that adjoin in western Arizona. The views were so…
“I had gone to bed one night, but could not sleep. My father was constantly in my mind. I seemed to feel that he was…
I'd like to introduce you to an extraordinary life, that of the pleasant-looking young woman in the portrait above. On the one hand, I could…
In Medical Folkways in America – Part One: Maggots, Hairballs, and Eels, we looked at how things used to be, way back, when people lived on…
