Ashley Colby, founder of the Rizoma Field School, digs up inspiring true stories of resistance and restoration (with references to donkeys, elephants, and our 49th state). Bill Kauffman, author and regular conference closer, weaves Wisconsin professors of the past and the robo-umps of tomorrow into a seamless and side-splitting localist garment. Rory Groves introduces the duo and ponders a porch free of PhDs.
Highlights
1:30 Rory Groves, unlikely agrarian
Ashley Colby: “Doomer Optimism: Life Adjacent to the Machine”
5:30 Adjacent, whether we like it or not
7:45 Donkey driving, mastodon ranching, hospitality boot camp
12:00 Alaskan laundries and cider-sipping city dwellers
Bill Kauffman: “Off the Empire, On Wisconsin”
17:15 A thieving historian
22:00 Rural drama
26:00 Little things mean a lot
33:00 You’re out!
38:30 A midnight tale
Resources
Speaker bios and conference videos
Conference co-sponsor Plough
Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for our theme music
