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- Middle school students will be part of Healthy Foods, Local Farms Conference
Register now for the Sierra Club's 11th Annual Healthy Foods, Local Farms Conference, which will be held Sept. 24-25 at Spalding University in Louisville. This year's theme is "A [More...]
- Literary contest open to poetry, fiction and nonfiction
The 2010 New Southerner Literary Contest is open to previously unpublished poetry, fiction and nonfiction from April 1 through October 1. Although the contest theme is open, we are especially [More...]
- Farmers, teachers and concerned eaters to convene at food-focused conference
The Sierra Club's 11th Annual Healthy Foods, Local Farms Conference will be held Sept. 24-25 in Louisville. There are three main events, and participants must register separately for each. A free [More...]
- Street party and concert set for second year to raise awareness of mountaintop removal
By BOBBI BUCHANAN Louisville.VisitSouth.com Louisville’s independent retailers will join Kentuckians for the Commonwealth to host a special street party and concert on Bardstown Road at Longest Avenue. The second annual Louisville [More...]
- Ecologically friendly building teaches about saving energy
By CHARLIE WHITE The Courier-Journal Ramsey Middle School on Gellhaus Lane off Billtown Road has been saving the school district more than $1,000 a month on natural gas and electricity [More...]
- Critically acclaimed Kentucky duo to perform at Brown Theatre
By BOBBI BUCHANAN Louisville.VisitSouth.com For a taste of Kentucky’s varied and distinct music, mark your calendar for Friday, Feb. 26, when critically acclaimed natives Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore will take [More...]
- Solar in Kentucky? 1970s house shows it works
By TOM EBLEN Lexington Herald-Leader Richard Levine has heard all of the arguments about why solar energy won't work in Kentucky. And he has been defying them for three decades. Levine, a University [More...]
- Novel offers compelling view of 19th century mountain life
BOOK REVIEW By KAY HUBBARD Joan Donaldson's On Viney's Mountain offers a compelling perspective on Tennessee mountain life in the late 19th century. The title is apt, because it is a story [More...]
- Pushcart Prize nominees announced
Congratulations to New Southerner's Pushcart Prize nominees: "Honesty" by Kate Buckley (poetry) "The Gold Star" by G.C. Compton (fiction) "Chilaquiles" by Michele Niesen (nonfiction)
- Wendell Berry, others to discuss growing community through food
Register now for the Sierra Club's 10th Annual Healthy Foods, Local Farms Conference, which will be held Nov. 7 at the University of Louisville. This year's theme is "Growing Community [More...]
- River lover celebrates 60th birthday paddling Apalachicola solo
The Apalachicola Riverkeeper invites you to recruit family, friends, and colleagues to sponsor RiverTrek paddling miles and, in turn, help raise resources and awareness for the Apalachicola Riverkeeper’s initiatives to [More...]
- Bread Puddings Your Kids Will Remember
By ELLEN BIRKETT MORRIS Certain foods provide instant comfort. When I’ve had a hard day, I hanker for the butter and sugar sandwiches on white bread my mom used to serve [More...]
- Carefully crafted novel provides insight into early settlers’ lives and deaths
BOOK REVIEW By MARY POPHAM Nearly 30 years in the writing, Richard Taylor’s important historic work, Sue Mundy: A Novel of the Civil War, is poetry. Meticulous research and love of his [More...]
- New Southerner announces ‘James Baker Hall Memorial Prize in Poetry’
New Southerner is pleased to announce the James Baker Hall Memorial Prize in Poetry, an annual award to be offered along with the magazine’s literary prizes in fiction and nonfiction [More...]
- Hundreds memorialize James Baker Hall
By JOHN CHEVES Lexington Herald-Leader James Baker Hall's loved ones said he probably would have laughed through the memorial service held for him Saturday. Hundreds of people packed the Carnegie Center in Lexington's [More...]
- A President Breaks Hearts in Appalachia
By ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. The Washington Post Mountaintop removal coal mining is the worst environmental tragedy in American history. When will the Obama administration finally stop this Appalachian apocalypse? If ever an [More...]
- A Tribute to Thomas Berry, Scholar, Visionary, Planet Lover
by MARY EVELYN TUCKER YES Magazine A journey of nearly four decades with Thomas Berry has been one of the greatest gifts of my life, as it has been for countless others. What [More...]
- Memorial for James Baker Hall
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 and a visual artist, publishing [More...]
- Lettuce From the Garden, With Worms
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF The New York Times Growing up on a farm near Yamhill, Ore., I quickly learned to appreciate the difference between fresh, home-grown foods and the commercial versions in [More...]
- Obama walks a fine line over mining
Environmentalists feel betrayed by the EPA's decision not to block new mountaintop mining projects By TOM HAMBURGER and PETER WALLSTEN Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — With the election of President Obama, environmentalists [More...]


