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“[Tubman] is a woman who spent her life destroying slavery[.] It’s a reminder about the relationship between history, capitalism and capital in this country. If we put her on the [$20] bill uncritically, that’s a grave disservice to her legacy.”
Fitting the Bill | L&S News
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Before big farms, this plant alone could feed many people… Grandmothers said these turnips point towards each other, so you’ll always know where the next one will be.
I missed this article back in October.
Thíŋpsiŋla: The Edible Bounty Beneath the Great Plains | Serious Eats
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10 December 1967:
Redding is flying up from Saturday night shows in Cleveland in the well-used green-and-white Beechcraft 18 airplane he had just bought for $78,000.
Madison In The Sixties – The Death Of Otis Redding | WORT 89.9 FM
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The war is over on paper, but the war is not completely over on the land. … I challenge anyone to say “in 200 years the job will be done.” So we can say the Démineurs are the last soldiers on the French territory.
Clearing unexploded WWI munitions from Zone Rouge. [via Aeon]
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