Pleasureville, KY. In American farming we are leaching not just top soil but people. Sometimes there’s good news, though: here is a story about an 18-year-old Kentucky egg farmer who has done well enough to win a national award (with a lot of help from her younger brother).
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Katherine Dalton
Katherine Dalton has worked as a magazine editor, freelance feature writer and book editor. She started in journalism in college, working at The Yale Literary Magazine during most of its controversial few years as a national magazine of opinion based at Yale. She then worked briefly at Harper’s magazine in New York, and more extensively at Chronicles magazine in Illinois, where she was a contributing editor for many years. She has has written for various publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal to the University Bookman, and was a contributor to Wendell Berry: Life and Work and Localism in the Mass Age: A Front Porch Republic Manifesto. She lives in her native Kentucky.
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