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Forgotten Commonwealths: Agrarian Legacies & Lessons
“These developments are driven by dreams—of energy independence, economic recovery, political advantage, and profit. They coexist or clash with other dreams, some of which are born of recent concerns: food security, sustainable agriculture,…
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Reason’s Ghosts: The Settling & Unsettling of The Plains
“On the 18th of December, 1635, François Derré, sieur de Gand, Commissary-General of the Hundred Associates (the trading and colonization company of New France), went ‘to the Cabins of the Savages’ to give…
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Dreams in a Sliver of Time: Plains Songs
Small Things Recollected By William Ramp “These developments are driven by dreams—of energy independence, economic recovery, political advantage, and profit. They coexist or clash with other dreams, some of which are born of…
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An Ocean of Grass, A World of Song
“Mornings began with a chorus of robins and settled in to a melodious, free-form but regular cadence of wrens, sparrows, meadowlarks, blackbirds, and goldfinches. That orchestra has now changed; its music more constricted;…
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So, What Are We Doing Wrong: On Absent Mercies
“In Christian worship, in the Episcopalian tradition, the Eucharistic Host is received in one’s hands, palms up and together. The gesture in the parking lot seemed as if it were allowing some harbinger…