Katherine Dalton

Katherine Dalton
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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.

Recent Essays

Sixth Circuit Rules Even Attorneys Have First Amendment Rights

Cincinnati, Ohio, and New Castle, Kentucky. Late last month the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court judgment and found that...

Play With Your Food

The pleasures of a partial self-sufficiency.

Why I Am Not a Foodie

Guess what's for dinner.

Local News is Nobody’s Business

When the daily paper is gone, where does the reporting go?

The Food Broker

Big-city economic development from the pasture up.

Gatewood Galbraith, Tertium Quid, RIP

You who think that all of the principle and most of the color have gone out of politics never had the opportunity to vote for Gatewood Galbraith.

Rebuilding a rural economy

Readers of this site might be interested in a recent Daily Yonder newsstory on job creation in southeastern Ohio.  This Ford Foundation-underwritten project is trying to...

Yo! Farmer Dude!

What farmer shortage? We're all farmers here at 1st and Main.

Just in Time for a Royal Wedding

Noble marriages have a certain appeal to even staunch republicans like ourselves. Could it be for something other than celebrity and The Dress?

Probable Cause

Attorney John M. Berry Jr. in Kentucky is defending his right to criticize a decision made by the state's Legislative Ethics Commission. Was his language at fault? Or is someone playing politics with bar association rules?

Eating for Another Fifty (Centuries)

Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson would like you to think of the Farm Bill as an Eating Bill.

Locavoracity

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