Beloved writer, teacher and photographer James Baker Hall died June 25 at his home near Sadieville, Kentucky. Hall, 74, was prolific as both a writer… »
SUMMER 2009
from the editor
Don’t buy it
Buy, buy, buy. Being frugal, and especially in these tough economic times, those are precisely the words I don’t want to hear. So the day my husband David came up with a plan to construct a much-needed hay shelter out of recycled materials, I was game. Read more
back porch
The Way of the Eco-Warrior
By D. CAMERON LAWRENCE
Growing up in southern New England in the 1960s and ’70s—pre-sprawl—I had what many children today do not have: a birthright of outdoor adventure. We opened our doors to a huge, undivided landscape of green fields, tumbling brooks, hummocked marshes and quiet woods. My little brother and I roamed the outdoors like young Balboas, discovery around every bend in a stream. It seemed to us then that our landscape was without boundary and unowned, a freedom that gave us the chance to explore nature and develop a lifelong affinity for the outdoors. That is, until the day we learned what “progress” could take away. Read more
While the rich go green, the rest of us can jump on this bandwagon
By MICHAEL VAN HALL
dog-eared
UP-AND-COMER POETRY
Small Saturday Poem and Waking Me
By CHRIS SHAFER
FICTION
The Gold Star
By G.C. COMPTON
FICTION
Growing-Out Jericho
By WILLIAM R. WOODARD
POETRY
Katrina’s Voices
By JENNY ROOT
POETRY
Miss Lizzie’s Kitchen
By EVE HOFFMAN
NONFICTION
Chilaquiles
By MICHELE NIESEN
HALF-EMPTY MASON JAR
Why—and other questions that get us out of bed each morning
By LESLIE SMITH TOWNSEND
BOOK REVIEW
‘At the Breakers’ by Mary Ann Taylor-Hall
By MARY POPHAM
BOOK REVIEW
‘In the Heaven of Never Before’ by Carine Topal
By LAUREL ANN BOGEN
folks & neighborhoods
GARDEN SPOT OF THE WORLD
A question about the town motto sparks an organization, beautification and community involvement
By SUSAN WILLIAMSON




