Next Year's Community Garden
Root*Center*Son is going to see if the town would
like to use part of this field that he owns
for a Community Garden. That white
building is the Town Hall, next door to his house,
so the Garden would be near
parking and facilities.
Plus, nearby a new park and ride and bus stop is being
created.
3:15 PM - Oct 6, 2017
ReplyDeleteABC News: Robert Mueller's team met behind closed doors today w an unknown group of attorneys & chief judge of US District Court in DC
Hoping that means the end is in sight. Keep an eye open for news, please.
http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/mueller-court-trump-russia/5348/
DeleteI doubt the end is anywhere near in sight, but the train certainly seems to have left the station. And with a pretty good head of steam, too. I wonder if they are getting ready to put the big squeeze on someone to make him or her sing like a bird.
DeleteAlan
P.S.: My post below ["Wow..."] refers to the lead photo.
Wow, very convenient for participatory democracy! The hamlet where we lived when I was born had been bigger at one time, and had a town hall, by my time disused for its intended purpose. My folks used it to store hay for the general store. I remember going there with my father and brother once (I couldn't have been more than five years old); there was a stage/platform up front, and a balcony in the rear.
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Very cool that you recall it, Alan! I'm marveling over hay being stored between the stage and the balcony. That seems even more rural-eque than Vermont.
DeleteSpeaking of the general store... the general store in my son's town is that reddish building in the upper left corner of the photo. There is a connection between the store and his house, as the proprietor of the general store was a former owner and lived there. I think there has been just one family who owned it, between them, and that family (whom he purchased from) lived there for over 75 years.
Oh, I don't remember the hay--I just remember that my folks said the hay was stored in the old town hall. I do remember a punching bag hanging down from the balcony. The business was general store, hay, feed and grain, kerosene, the place where the harvested cascara bark was kept pending collection by a dealer from the Bay Area, post office, & county free library. I think the gas station was across the street at Pete Starr's garage (auto repair). It was a very rural area. The land wasn't good enough to run cattle on (beyond a few dairy cows for personal use); mostly income came from logging and sheep. Some people didn't have enough money for wooden floors in their houses, or shoes for their kids; some made it through the winter only by poaching (including sore-tail salmon). Then the mill burnt down, and there wasn't enough harvestable timber nearby to justify rebuilding it. The store (which included our home) had the last gas lights in town. Way back when, oil explorers drilled a well in the gulch down behind the store, but all they got was gas, which was useless to them, so they capped the well. The locals used it to light the town, though. Until much of the town burnt down, after which they went back to using kerosene. But the store building was covered with galvanized iron, roof and walls, and didn't catch fire. Before electricity came, the store used natural gas refrigerators (not as good as electric ones, but they did work), and I can remember my father lighting the gas lamps in the store once when the electricity went out. In the days before kerosene was available, the local folk would dip up petroleum from seeps. There was an oil field in the area, but it was broken up into uneconomically small pockets; that area is the most seismically active place in the United States--maybe in North America, I'm not sure. Several young folks were in the service during WWII, and having seen the outside world, didn't come back afterwards. It was a hard-scrabble kind of place. And when the government made it impossible to control coyotes, there went sheep ranching.
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Top House Dem Demands Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Explain Email Switcheroo [Click]
ReplyDeleteRelated to what listener reported, or, just a coincidence? We report, you decide!
--Alan
These items should be subpoena'd before they're GONE.
DeleteWant to avert the apocalypse? Take lessons from Costa Rica[Click] “Today, Costa Rica is a thorn in the side of orthodox economics”
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—Alan
Wow, running on fecal waste. Just imagine. If we threw in Cheetolini he could probably power a whole city block in NYC all by himself.
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DeleteI'm actually developing an involuntary tic in my eyelid from all the stress of watching our country slide headfirst into fascism!
ReplyDeleteI'm trying not to hold my breath as we await the findings of Mueller. But I do feel breathless.
DeleteSusan, Your Kimmy cards arrived today. Thank you! This week I will mail those and the others I receive. Thank you!! And thank you for the very cool postcard!! 😀👍
ReplyDelete‘The Resistance’ Upends Democratic Politics [Click] …"attracting six- and seven-figure checks"…"foreshadows a once-in-a-generation reorganization of the American left…" Interesting, indeed.
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Exodus From Puerto Rico Could Remake Florida Politics
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--Alan
listener, Susan, everyone--relax and enjoy the show--you might as well. Confucius was the philosopher of the stable, rational society--who nevertheless realized that every once in a while things would go all to hell, and there wasn't anything anyone could do about it except to hunker down until it passed. Marx took Hegel's idea of thesis engenders antithesis, which together engender synthesis which is a new thesis, and so on, and applied it to society and political economy*, thereby offering an explanation of the changes which Confucius saw as irrational disruptions. I figure we may well be seeing such a period of change, just like the replacement of feudalism by mercantilism, or agrarian economies by manufacturing. Just what is going to go on during the change, and where we will end up, is neither clear nor settled; but the old ways just aren't fit for purpose any longer, and must be replaced. The changes may come far faster than anyone expected--just like electrification of transport and decarbonization of electrical power. The companies and investors that are sitting on top of large fossil fuel reserves are going to be in a world of hurt before long; heck, it's that way already--but it will get a whole lot worse.
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* Political economy, that branch of political science or
Deletephilosophy which treats of the sources, and methods of
production and preservation, of the material wealth and
prosperity of nations.
[1913 Webster]
--Alan