In the past few years, I have spent a lot of time reading material about and by Wendell Berry. I really admire him, both as a writer and a man. There are a lot of things such as moving to a farm, working that farm the old, manual way, remaining ludditious in his relationship with [...]
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One Step Into the Modern Word
Posted in Computers, The South on September 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, I took what I think is a big step forward in joining the modern world by purchasing an IPAD. Since I am not what one would call a “touch typist,” I grew rapidly tired of pounding my fingers against the touch screen in order to enter text. So, I swallowed my quickly fading [...]
Fort Sumter
Posted in Military, The South, The War Between the States on April 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In comemoration of the 150th anniversary of the firing on Fort Sumter by the Confederacy in 1861, I am posting some of the pictures I took on my trip there in 2007.
