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Radical Roots Blog: Pat Beaver, Helen Lewis...
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December 5, 2011. Pat Beaver, Helen Lewis. And Don West. Enough said. (Except, go out and pick this. Up, and read it good.). Posted by Radical Roots Project. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Our Award Winning Website. The Radical Roots Project. Follow Us On Facebook. Follow Us By Email. Subscribe To This Blog. Christians for the Mountains. Coal River Mountain Watch. Global to Local Popular Education. Healing Harvest Forest Foundation. Institute for People's Education and Action. The Cotton Patch Gospel.
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Radical Roots Blog: Counting Songbirds
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July 30, 2011. Awkward name, yes, but Garden and Gun Magazine. Has some pretty decent writing from time to time. Like this months piece by Kentucky author Erik Reece. About a weekend adventure with Wendell Berry and a handful of Port Royal pals. I think you're going to like it. As frail, to shelter love’s eternal work,. Always unfinished, here at water’s edge,. The work of beauty, faith, and gratitude. Eternally alive in time. Story via: gardenandgun.com/article/wendell-berry. Image by guy mendes. Brings...
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Radical Roots Blog: Hollywood Heads to Floyd County, Virginia
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November 16, 2011. Hollywood Heads to Floyd County, Virginia. One of those rough-and-tumble Ice Road Truckers kind of shows from the History Channel, spent the last couple of weeks filming with Jason Rutledge of the Healing Harvest Forest Foundation. Way to go HHFF! Here is an excerpt from my 2009 interview with Jason. Here, he reflects on his early days on the farm and the influence of his grandfather on his life and work:. Posted by Radical Roots Project. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Brings toge...
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Radical Roots Blog: The Long and Tangled Madrigal of Time
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November 30, 2011. The Long and Tangled Madrigal of Time. When fiddle makers and dulcimer. Makers look for best material they. Prefer old woods, not just seasoned. But antique, aged, like timbers out. Of condemned buildings and poles of. Attics and broken furniture. From attics. When asked, they will say. The older wood has sweeter, more. Mellow sounds, makes truer and deeper. Music, as if the walnut or. Cherry, cedar or maple, as. It aged, stored up the knowledge of. Passing seasons, the cold and thaw,.
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Radical Roots Blog: Excerpt From My Interview With Helen Lewis
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June 10, 2011. Excerpt From My Interview With Helen Lewis. This is a short excerpt from my interview with Helen Lewis about her early days teaching Appalachian Studies in Wise, VA. Interview and photograph may not be used without permission. Put together a big book of all the stories we collected from each of these communities and put it in the library at Clinch Valley. It was about the only place where these stories were being told. They started it right there out of that class. We couldn’t get Ya...
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Radical Roots Blog: Radical Roots at Firestorm Cafe in Asheville, NC
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July 10, 2011. Radical Roots at Firestorm Cafe in Asheville, NC. Radical Roots is pumped to have the project hanging at Firestorm Cafe and Books. Firestorm Cafe and Books opened its doors in May of 2008. Established as a worker-owned and self-managed business, we aim to provide community space, critical literature and an alternative economic model based on cooperative, libertarian principles. Behind the curtain, Firestorm Cafe and Books is run without bosses or supervisors, relying instead on a horizonta...
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Radical Roots Blog: Handcrafted Beauties From Larkspur Press
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November 10, 2011. Handcrafted Beauties From Larkspur Press. In Monterey, Kentucky. Create some of the finest handcrafted books, special editions, and broadsides you'll ever see. Their work is technical and detailed, yet the vision is simple:. In addition to publishing, we are helping keep alive the traditional Art of letterpress printing, which is shown in the special editions we issue, along with the more affordable regular editions. Posted by Radical Roots Project. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Radical Roots Blog: Meat...Camp
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October 28, 2011. Not sure where this image came from, but obviously someone was inspired after passing through the salty little hamlet just outside of Boone, NC (Watauga County). If you ever need to know anything about Meat Camp. Stop in and see Pat Beaver at ASU's Center for Appalachian Studies. Posted by Radical Roots Project. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Our Award Winning Website. The Radical Roots Project. Follow Us On Facebook. Follow Us By Email. Subscribe To This Blog. Tennessee Coal Ash S...
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"We Are Tearing Down Our Mountains": Photojournalist Antrim Caskey on West Virginia's Fight Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining | Democracy Now!
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Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta: January 2010
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Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta. Curse of the Black Gold takes a graphic look at the profound cost of oil exploitation in West Africa. Featuring images by world-renowned photojournalist Ed Kashi and text by University of California at Berkeley professor Michael Watts, this book traces the 50-year history of Nigeria's oil industry involvement. Sunday, January 31, 2010. What is America Doing about Energy? What is wrong with America? Posted by Ed Kashi. Tuesday, January 19, 2010.
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