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Wendell Berry

Exciting news, read on! Tulsa World Farmer, poet Wendell Berry to receive Tulsa library’s Helmerich award  BY MICHAEL OVERALL World Staff Writer Sunday, March 25, 2012 He’s either a leftist or a right-wing extremist, a liberal revolutionary or a retrograde conservative.  “I’ve been called a communist and a fascist,” admits Wendell Berry. “But I’m glad […]

The Van Dorens

From the indefatigable Kirk Kramer: Yesterday I discovered that Mark Van Doren’s son Charles is an adjunct English professor at the Torrington campus of the Univ of Connecticut.  In recent years he has given several lectures there, sponsored by something called the Litchfield Co. Writers Project. Here is the link to the list of lectures: https://www.lib.uconn.edu/lcwp/ […]

“And rural mirth and manners are no more” – Watch “FRESH” a powerful documentary about American agriculture

Please visit this link HERE to watch the documentary “Fresh.”  This film takes a look at the deficiencies and horrors of American Industrial Agricultural, but also provides a glimpse of several different organizations or farmers that are working today to create sustainable, philosophically sound, ethical, organic, and natural options for farmers and consumers.  It is only an […]

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