HEALTH CARE
HEALTH CARE By Staff Vol. 1, No. 5, 1979, pp. 22-23 When your school-age child walks out the door, armed with books and lunch money, will that money be spent on the food in the lunch line, or will it
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Black Farmers: A Vanishing Breed
Black Farmers: A Vanishing Breed By Robert M. Press Vol. 1, No. 6, 1979, pp. 5-7 Bolivar County, Mississippi-Mary Coleman hunches over, shucking corn on the wooden porch of the small crossroads grocery store she runs here. Weedcroppers from the
Solar Greenhouses: The Greening of the South
Solar Greenhouses: The Greening of the South By Steve Suitts Vol. 1, No. 3, 1979 pp. 8-10 Publisher’s Note: I was in no mood to he convinced when Bill Dow began to explain his idea last year. As he sat
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URBAN AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
URBAN AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT By Diane Johnston Vol. 1, No. 6, 1979, pp. 26 “…they were ready to face the odds and fight for what they fervently believe in — the future of the family farmer.” That was how Atlanta
The Progressive Farmer: A Long Row’s Hoeing into Lespedeza
The Progressive Farmer: A Long Row’s Hoeing into Lespedeza By Cary Fowler Vol. 1, No. 10, 1979, pp. 4, 29-32 Southern politics in the 1880s was alive with the fever of a native-born Populism. Led by the Southern Alliance (renamed
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Harris Neck Battles U.S. Government
Harris Neck Battles U.S. Government By Chini Vol. 2, No. 1, 1979, pp. 14-17 For the people of a tiny fishing and farming community located on Georgia’s rich Atlantic coast, standing up to the Klan and going to jail are
The Case for Small Farms
The Case for Small Farms By Ginny Looney and Duna Norton Vol. 2, No. 3, 1979, pp. 22-25 When the State Legislature was forming the next-to last county in Alabama in 1877 from the southernmost hills of the Appalachian chain,
The Lost Colony of North Carolina
The Lost Colony of North Carolina By Donna Dyer and Frank Adams Vol. 4, No. 3, 1982, pp. 3-11 “We don’t have poverty in Hertford County. People live like that because they want to. They don’t want it any other
Ending the Short Stick In Mississippi’s Woods
Ending the Short Stick In Mississippi’s Woods By Tom Israel and Randall Williams Vol. 4, No. 3, 1982, pp. 16-18 Pine trees are commonplace, but timber is an industry, especially in the South where forests stretch from Houston to the
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Forestry and Equity
Forestry and Equity By Tom Hatley Vol. 5, No. 4, 1983, pp. 19-23 If you travel along a state highway during the Southern winter, your eyes follow unavoidably the constants of the land: field openings of red, brown, and dun-colored