The Nearly Noon News-Monday January 2, 2023
Jan 6
Natural Wonders #49
As well as the myriad of things The Professor did, Aldo Leopold was a bird bander. The December chapter of his book A Sand County Almanac ends with a part called 65290, the band number of a chickadee. I will then talk about the first bird I...
A Parallelogram- December 29, 2022
Catherine reads A Parallelogram from her poetry collection Geosmin A Parallelogram is based on the photo "Met" of a many storied, many painted atrium with reflections and echoes of parallelograms through which could be seen snow-covered trees. The poem is an...
Digging Deep- December 31, 2023
Philothea hosts Allen Philo continuing their discussion on the history of agriculture
Monthly Review- December 2022
January 1st – 7th, 2023
Words and Images
Books and films that I love
Dec 30 2022
Honoring the Dakota 38 Patriots with Troubadour Larry Long & Storyteller Tom Thibodeau
Placing the Santee Dakota Nation on reservations for the first time in 1851 was an act of cultural genocide. A mere decade thereafter, deprived of the freedom of the hunt, this ancient people stared starvation in its grim face. In August of 1862, there began a final...