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Among the legion of unjustly forgotten historical figures there’s an eccentric soldier and failed composer named Captain Tobias Hume.  Unless you play the viola da gamba or you’re fond of Polish…

Their language is hopeful and would be recognizable to any tobacco farmer of the last hundred years. But now they are talking about food.

Men cut off from their origins and alienated from their selves become desperate, and desperate men do desperate deeds.

Henry County, Kentucky. What holds a community together?  Or rather, what holds my community together, as I'll have to leave you to worry about yours?  I think about it some because…