Region & Place 428

Will I die here? I don't know. I have tried living away from here and it does not work.

     The dank and drear of Election Day and its hangover were dispelled by the appearance in my mailbox of books from two most admirable friends.      John Rezelman—poet, wit,…

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

Our region became, unwittingly, the domestic front of what is now surely a global energy war.

Those so blessed by the Good Lord as to be within hailing (or driving) distance of Batavia, New York, might want to drop by the Pokadot diner tonight at 8…

Does food have a context of time and place?, or, How to make your own sausage.

On the banks of a river, but can't get a drink.

For instruction in civilization, nothing beats a small town.

Is the meaning of a feast forfeited when the fast is no longer observed?

"Fear and pity are made out of grammar,” he writes, and in this most particular grammatical unit he finds the fabric of tragedy itself.

Many a time, I have seen my friend doting on his little seven-year-old half brother, picking him up from school, cooking for him, and keeping his classmates’ junk food at…

Here are the local puzzle pieces that we somehow need to fit together: great farms; committed, hard working farmers; a university of world class researchers; a highly participatory local political…

I know what Jesus would do: hate the car, love the car driver.

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

Raise a glass of dandelion wine to the dreamy kid from Waukegan, Illinois, who today becomes a nonagenarian. Herewith my appreciation of Bradbury from a while back: https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/06/ray-bradbury-of-illinois/

Do you ever long for the place of your childhood? Does it still exist?

Gossip, under the right circumstances, acts as a virtue which demonstrates concern and thickens social ties.

My review of Howard Mansfield's Turn & Jump is in today's Wall Street Journal.

Economics has become a totalizing system claiming the power to explain all things. It is as much a religious system—by another name—as is Berry's Great Economy.

The prevailing model of local voting has deep defects, which often work against strong communities. The modern standard is one person, one vote, one place. While this standard is simple,…

I prefer the waiter at Galatoire’s who told us to avoid the trout because it wasn’t very good that day. That’s useful information. But it’s simply impossible to imagine a…

Jayber seemed like a good name for this bald, homeless bird.

It’s been almost six years now and I suspect he’s still talking St. Peter’s ear off.

It’s been almost exactly a year since the “Miracle at Polihale” occurred, and the answer to the “aloha question” is now clear: we are entering a “new normal.”