Mockingbird Song
the massively resurgent deer population of the late twentieth century.^17 One mourns Odum now, perhaps not least for the passing ...
torian of medicine to him, Bass became a minor celebrity—at least among folklife devotees—with publication of his reminiscences, ...
Headquarters, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Norfolk, Virginia, ca. . Courtesy. ...
Working in a school garden, Gees Bend, Alabama, . Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Courtesy Library of Congress (LC-USF- ...
Hagood no small concern: the smartest and most aggressive among them seemed too much like men, being more interested in commerci ...
(alphabetically) of these self-nourishing writers was Bernice Kelly Harris (–). Born on a large farm in Wake County, Nor ...
into the brick house her husband had built for them. Now a prominent matron, she could not resist the countrywoman’s imperative ...
title, purslane, a common weed. Typical of all plants called weeds, purs- lane (also rendered ‘‘pusley’’ in speech) appears sudd ...
was no small problem. On the other hand, she was magnetically attractive and voluble with a genius for friendship, and she won t ...
Zora Neale Hurston, ca. . Courtesy Florida State Archives. ...
but she did little work as a contract screenwriter and felt isolated on the West Coast. So as before, time and again, Zora fled ...
cian in Los Angeles who responded generously to Zora’s requests for loans, she had little luck. She died at last in Fort Pierce, ...
to tea at five o’clock the next afternoon, in the apartment atop the Castle Warden Hotel that she shared with her husband. The h ...
aboard her houseboat. She wrote to Marjorie: ‘‘Twenty-one guns!...‘Cross Creek’...isamostremarkable piece of work....Whetheritpl ...
mony and equilibrium among humans must surely contribute to equable and reciprocal relations between humans and the rest of natu ...
the vertebrae.’’ Then one should ‘‘roll in salted and peppered flour and fry quickly in butter.’’ Bears had grown scarce even ar ...
pods, leaving on the stems, she boiled her okra in salted water for precisely seven minutes. Service arrived on small plates for ...
family who inspired her self-sufficient fictional characters. They had rhap- sodized about roasted limpkin. Marjorie was collect ...
certainly tasted better. Marjorie had become disgusted with ‘‘sportsmen’’— the very class she represented—who had been principal ...
Conservation Service. Born on a North Carolina cotton farm, Bennett re- mained not only the practical agrarian but the outdoorsm ...
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