Mockingbird Song
He is a ‘‘cracker,’’ actually. The expression, about years old in English popular usage, means one who boasts, cracks wise, ...
sometimes purposefully introduced—seeds and seedlings for familiar Eu- ropean field crops, kitchen gardens, and ornamentals—but ...
anything the unifying substance of that pesky abstraction, the South. Long before the mule, hogs were the icons and factotums of ...
Holy Land, where some people buried their dead in caves, swine broke in and consumed corpses. How then, did European Christians ...
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings at her garden fence, Cross Creek, ca. s. Courtesy Florida State Archives. ...
contributed to the ‘‘degradation’’ of forests, reducing the proportion of hardwood deciduous species in relation to pines. Ruffi ...
one hog drive to Virginia in by McWhiney’s figures of annual drives the last fifteen antebellum years—to other Atlantic and ...
disintegrated, its liquid remains drained into catchments; workers col- lected the muck and, with little processing or cleaning, ...
host of local people not directly connected to the industry, decried ‘‘over- boxing’’ and wanton killing of longleaves. The pred ...
Overboxed turpentine pine near Valdosta, Georgia, . Photo by Carl Mydans. Courtesy Library of Congress (LC-USF--D). ...
workers the industry ensnared by debt to company stores no less hopelessly than contemporary coal miners. It seems entirely poss ...
ers, was little help in disposal. Edmund Ruffin, for instance, kibitzing on Virginia fronts during the first half of the war, re ...
Massachusetts soldiers carrying away fence rails, North Carolina, . Courtesy North Carolina Collection, University of North ...
near-eradication of cattle and hogs in combat zones: no ranging animals to speak of, no need for crop field protection. Certainl ...
tives in the stunning recovery and expansion of the cotton kingdom and other, new, industrial principalities. tFor all the devas ...
erners were, after all, deliberate and systematic arsonists. They cleared countless Mississippian crop fields this way, and they ...
Logging is a very old business. Throughout eastern North America, most rural, farming households engaged their strong men and dr ...
ting logs and floating them downriver. Tradition has it that the Hatfields were done in by righteous state and federal prosecuto ...
the business policy of ‘‘cut out and get out,’’ just as they had in the Mid- west. In the meantime, collectively, all these indi ...
fire. Protection would be accomplished by construction of watchtowers and fire roads, by providing for the mobilization of fores ...
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