Katherine Dalton

Locavoracity

Dylan February 3, 2011

What is the point of eating local? Are we actually feeding something besides our own ego and gluttony?

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Dear Santa

santa_claus December 31, 2010

You may think every five- to eight-year-old you know wanted an iPod this year. Not these kids.

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Julian Assange & the Face of Placelessness

JPGWiki December 20, 2010

From the mountaintop, the little people of this world appear very small indeed.

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The Ode Familiar

reading a poem November 19, 2010

A call for your favorite poems of place.

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Sunny Side Up

November 11, 2010

There are still some enterprising farm kids around, making a good business out of your need to eat.

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Rootedness & Rand Paul

RP October 29, 2010

What does it mean to be a Kentuckian, or a Kentucky senator? Does place have any place in a national election?

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Give Us This Day Our Bread–Perennially

Grass heads October 25, 2010

Planting a greener Green Revolution.

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Everything I Ever Learned About Civility I Learned in a Small Town

small-town September 24, 2010

For instruction in civilization, nothing beats a small town.

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The Cherry Now

sour cherry June 17, 2010

I have a long history with the sour cherry. Here is some of it.

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Thinking about Spills

May 20, 2010

Wendell Berry turns his attention toward an intentional spill in Kentucky.

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In the Good News Department

May 18, 2010

Down in West Texas there is a one-armed cotton farmer named Cliff Etheredge who has turned the sirocco that blows through his part of the country into an asset—and not just for himself, but for hundreds of his neighbors.

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Chalk One Up for Organic

May 5, 2010

Some scientific arguments on energy use are based on data that do not take enough factors into account

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My Little Ole Ballot Box

power plant April 8, 2010

Making the case for nuclear power. Since everyone else is.

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No National ID Tags for Buttercup–Yet

March 26, 2010

Since the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) has been discussed on this site by Jerry Salyer and Susan McWilliams, I want to mention that last month the program (after a $120+ million investment) was pulled by the USDA.  It has been…

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Some Children Must Be Left Behind

teen hulk March 11, 2010

Will raising the legal dropout age teach troubled kids anything? Probably not.

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On Friendship

three friends February 15, 2010

Most of us require an extended social network to keep us mentally and morally awake, and for a laugh, too, and if these friends are people we can weave in and out of our lives without heartbreak, they are nonetheless dear. They respond, they amuse, and they sometimes shelter us in a way that shows as clear as paint that the world is full of goodness and not just evil.

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