Mikayla Moors Photography
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George Washington Carver: Grandfather of Sustainability – Part III
In Part II, we left George Washington Carver as he just accepted an offer from Booker T. Washington to come to a new and financially struggling black college in Alabama, Tuskegee Institute. This brilliant mini-biography by Cheri Colburn first appeared in Greenwoman #2. It’s available in that issue, or in its entirety as an ebook on
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George Washington Carver: Grandfather of Sustainability – Part II
In Part I, we learned about George Washington Carver’s early years, from his birth to a slave in Missouri through his early education. We left during his teen years, as he finds a ride with the Smith family to find more schooling, and hopefully, more opportunities, in Fort Scott, Kansas. This brilliant mini-biography by Cheri
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Free Speech Suppression on College Campuses
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. –Frederick Douglass It’s unfortunate that college students all across America are waging a war against the First Amendment. For fear of getting their feelings hurt, these students have banded together to stop others
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George Washington Carver: Grandfather of Sustainability – Part I
This brilliant mini-biography of George Washington Carver by Cheri Colburn first appeared in Greenwoman #2. It’s available in that issue, or in its entirety as an ebook on Amazon.com. –Sandra Knauf * * * For weeks now I’ve been asking my (mostly white, mostly well-educated) friends what they know about George Washington Carver. Nearly every response
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Flocking to Freedom
As fall begins and the daylight wanes, my chickens start molting and stop laying eggs. I haven’t eaten an egg in weeks, but nature is seasonal. Earlier in the year, the peaches ripened and we ate, cooked, and canned as many as we could. Later it was frozen beans and pickled cucumbers, but what all
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