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What Passes and What Remains: A Review of Pappyland

While we can’t forever capture in amber all that passes through time, what we can do is hope for the Resurrection and leave mementos of ourselves for those that follow.

“Oh, Wow.” A Benediction for Ed McClanahan

Immortality might not last forever. But I contend that Ed will—through his words and through the lives of those he touched with his generosity and his grace. All of which…

I Hear Kentucky Singing

Whatever our color or life or place of origin, we can all sing of our longing for home, our love of the natural world, our delight in children, and our…

The Food Broker

Big-city economic development from the pasture up.
Katherine Dalton
February 23, 2012

Immigration, Loyalty, and Economy

Do we get an economy that serves the people? Or do we get the right people to serve the economy?

Just In Time For Halloween: Peep Show For Ghouls At The Lexington Center

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: To claim that modern America is descending into paganism is grossly unfair… to pagans.

The War On Raw Milk

Last Friday in Louisville, Kentucky, the city's Department of Health and Wellness issued a cease-and-desist order to the Whole Life Buying Club, and then placed the organization's milk cache under…

Is Western Civilization Un-American?

Thoughts on the "Andrew Jackson versus Mr. Peanut" debate.

Wendell Berry Risks Arrest in Sit-In

A group of Kentuckians are protesting mountaintop removal.
Mark T. Mitchell
February 11, 2011

Sunny Side Up

There are still some enterprising farm kids around, making a good business out of your need to eat.
Katherine Dalton
November 11, 2010

Rootedness & Rand Paul

What does it mean to be a Kentuckian, or a Kentucky senator? Does place have any place in a national election?
Katherine Dalton
October 29, 2010

Civilization & The Sacred

Civilization rests upon the sacred. Thus it is as grimly appropriate that the first atom bomb test was sacrilegiously codenamed “Trinity” – as in *the* Trinity – as it is…

Some Children Must Be Left Behind

Will raising the legal dropout age teach troubled kids anything? Probably not.
Katherine Dalton
March 11, 2010

Constitutional Kookiness

For years, two-faced Republican demagogues have served up phony-baloney about how much they love little country churches, Norman Rockwell paintings, and old-fashioned American life, even while they were simultaneously encouraging…

Root Hog or Die

  Henry County, Kentucky.  Every Memorial Day my husband takes our children to visit three cemeteries in our county.  We take grass from the family farm for a great-grandfather, rhubarb for…
Katherine Dalton
May 28, 2009

An Elegy for Tobacco

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…
Katherine Dalton
April 2, 2009