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The lost treasures of Grandma’s house
John B. Marek is a storyteller with dirt under his nails who weaves tales inspired by a lifetime immersed in nature. His insightful essays and award-winning fiction delve into the complexities of sustainable living, the heart of rural communities and the thrill of...
The tradition of ‘fishing the run’
John B. Marek is a storyteller with dirt under his nails who weaves tales inspired by a lifetime immersed in nature. His insightful essays and award-winning fiction delve into the complexities of sustainable living, the heart of rural communities and the thrill of...
Harbingers of spring
John B. Marek is a storyteller with dirt under his nails who weaves tales inspired by a lifetime immersed in nature. His insightful essays and award-winning fiction delve into the complexities of sustainable living, the heart of rural communities and the thrill of...
Visiting Tom Green country
John B. Marek is a storyteller with dirt under his nails who weaves tales inspired by a lifetime immersed in nature. His insightful essays and award-winning fiction delve into the complexities of sustainable living, the heart of rural communities and the thrill of...
Meet the misfits
John B. Marek is a storyteller with dirt under his nails who weaves tales inspired by a lifetime immersed in nature. His insightful essays and award-winning fiction delve into the complexities of sustainable living, the heart of rural communities and the thrill of...
This is the reckoning, this is our test
Here's a poem written by Andell McCoy. It's based on the message she delivered at Saturday's Black History Month celebration at the Highland Community Center. In these coming days of cruel extremes I ask, Who are we destined to be? Forever...
The suburban guide to not raising chickens
John B. Marek is a storyteller with dirt under his nails who weaves tales inspired by a lifetime immersed in nature. His insightful essays and award-winning fiction delve into the complexities of sustainable living, the heart of rural communities and the thrill of...
A meditation
A poem by Andell McCoy May I/we be fully present and accepting of all that is in a most positive and productive way in an effort to promote more calm, balanced healthy ractional movement on the planet and in the world May I/we be...
Learn typewriter repair
John B. Marek is a storyteller with dirt under his nails who weaves tales inspired by a lifetime immersed in nature. His insightful essays and award-winning fiction delve into the complexities of sustainable living, the heart of rural communities and the thrill of...
Eyes wide open
A poem by Andell McCoy A beating heartA breathA vision A lifethe kaleidoscopeadventurefrom birth to deathmeasured in human timein and out ofrhythm,in and out ofrhyme The moments, the minutes, hours, days, monthsand yearsof the ticking clock,ticking, ticking,...
A mystery without resolution
John B. Marek is a storyteller with dirt under his nails who weaves tales inspired by a lifetime immersed in nature. His insightful essays and award-winning fiction delve into the complexities of sustainable living, the heart of rural communities and the thrill of...
A magnificent and wonderful picture show
This week, Mt. Gilead's Andell McCoy takes us on a train ride, via poetry. The train, the whistle, hum and roar of movement, metal against metal, steel boxes grinding against steel tracks meeting at high speeds holding, carrying city/country folks,...