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["Jeanne Driese" <jeanne13 AT earthlink.net>]

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 
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  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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