Being back in the American South, I have had plenty of opportunity to drink in the vernacular styles of housebuilding here. In particular I have been looking at, and thinking about, the “big houses” be they plantation or city houses, so popular before and immediately after the Civil War.
They aspire to a classicism, and that [...]
On Southern Architecture
Digging In To the South
Quite literally. For the last several weeks we have been working to get our planting done before it got really hot here, and today we finish up putting in the first round of vegetables.
Biodynamic, open-pollinated, heirloom seeds from Abundant Life and Nichols nurseries are going to provide us with Artichoke, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Carrot, [...]
The Cruelest Cuts
From my old home state of North Carolina comes a six-part expose on the poultry industry, documenting the lives of North Carolina’s 28,000 poultry workers. Editor Rick Thames kicks off the series with a searing editorial that compares these workers, mostly illegal immigrants with few rights, to the South’s most notorious historical underclass. But it [...]
Lesson For Today
The majority of what I write here is impersonal, in that it has as its subject life and society at a larger scale than merely me, though I do hope something of a unique voice shows through my muddled postings. However, having been recently inspired by Shimelle’s Learn Something Every Day idea, I have decided [...]
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