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Category: Agriculture
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This weekend we traveled to Tyronza, Arkansas for a repeat visit to the Southern Tenant Farmers Union Museum. The Union was organized in Tyronza in 1934 by what on the surface would seem an odd couple in the deep south: Clay East who operated a gas station and H.L. Mitchell, owner of a dry cleaning… Continue reading Red Square
“It must be Johnson grass they’re talking about”
"It must be Johnson grass they're talking about" My father's remark to my brother as they heard my mother say to someone on the phone, "And it's just spreading like wildfire." My mother and her friend were probably talking about drugs or teen pregnancy or telemarketers. No matter. My father had a nice, dry sense… Continue reading “It must be Johnson grass they’re talking about”