Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Americana
From Storytelling to Slow Craft: How Communities Build Resilience Through Authentic Rural Experiences In small towns and rural communities around the world, the most powerful stories are often the quietest ones. A grandmother teaching her grandson how to make jam from fruit grown on ancestral land. A blacksmith showing a class of fifth graders how […]
Diary of Orrin Brown, Sister’s Landing, Georgia Tuesday–Jan. 31st We had another cool night but it came of warm and nice through the day. We had company drill this AM and about 11 AM I was detailed with 17 others of the company to go down to the river and unload a steamer, it was […]
Diary of Orrin Brown, Savannah, Georgia Tuesday–Jan. 24th The weather is a little cooler today. I wrote a letter to Mr. Moore folks today we had dress parade again this PM but the smoke hurt my eyes so that I could not go out. I read 6 Chapt. in the Testament today. In 1859, William […]
Diary of Orrin Brown, Savannah, Georgia Sunday–Jan. 22nd It has been cloudy and damp all day I was detailed this morning to help dig a well for our company and there was a detail of 19 men made to clean up our camp so I think we will stay here several days. I have written […]
Everything we thought we knew about energy development just a few short years ago seems to have been turned on its head. Some of this change has been caused by new technology, some by old politics; a lot by larger forces in the world around us: Over the next three decades, world energy consumption is […]
