[Homestead] Who knows? Only time.
Jeanne Driese
jeanne13 at earthlink.net
Sun Mar 9 12:38:39 EDT 2008
This is an exerpt from the internet:
Barbara Kingsolver was born in 1955 in Annapolis, Maryland, and grew up in rural Kentucky. She counts among her most important early influences: the Bookmobile, a large family vegetable garden, the surrounding fields and woods, and parents who were tolerant of nature study (anything but snakes and mice could be kept in the house), but intolerant of TV.
Beginning around the age of nine, Barbara kept a journal, wrote poems and stories, and entered every essay contest she ever heard about. Her first published work, "Why We Need a New Elementary School," included an account of how the school's ceiling fell and injured her teacher. The essay was printed in the local newspaper prior to a school-bond election; the school bond passed. For her efforts Barbara won a $25 savings bond, on which she expected to live comfortably in adulthood.
Hey James, she lived in KY until she graduated from high school, plenty of time to become familiar with life in our area. I do not agree that she was "imported", at least not as a complete stranger, to this culture. Also she was not impressed by the fact that "They " were grant mongers, but by the desire to grow, produce and sell locally.
James has my agreement about the Pisonwood Bible but it seems a bit drastic to say she has done the same thing where she is now!
Just my two cents worth.
Jeanne
tnhillwoman
North East TN zone 6
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From: Clansgian at wmconnect.com
To: homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Who knows? Only time.
> >Have you read any of Barbara Kingsolver's stuff?
Kingslover's Virginia location is Abingdon, twenty miles from here. Her
husband is a prof at Emory, another twenty miles north of there.
The book is very good, but like so many imported people, Kingsolver was too
impressed witht he local grant supported "sustainable" (not!) outfit run by
professional grant-mongers.
Recall that she said they had to rely on strawberry jam during the winter
because there was no local fruit available. Pshaw! If she had just stopped at
the Po' Boy produce stand on Main Street no less, she'd have found bushels of
locally grown apples al winter long. And cheap too, 39 cents a pound.
At best a non-local is only going to know just so much about eating local.
James </HTML>
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