When it comes to battlefields, we all know Bunker Hill, Lexington and Concord, Gettysburg, Ft. Sumter, and more recently, Pearl Harbor and Ground Zero. But there’s a much lesser-known historical battle site that’s right in our backyard, and its tale [...]
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The Battle Of Blair Mountain: Still Fighting
Tagged with: 1920's, Almost Heaven, Athena Grayson, Blair Mountain, coal miners, environmentalism, History, organizing, southern west virginia, UMWA, unions
Posted in History
Posted in History
Heat: It’s Nothing New
So I was sauteing chicken on the driveway yesterday when one of my kids comes around the corner from the deck where he’s smacking wasp nests out of the grill and he says to me, “Mom, I think it’s the [...]
Tagged with: 1930's, Athena Grayson, Dust Bowl, environment, environmentalism, heat wave, History, Science, science
Posted in History
Posted in History
Food Fight: The Victory Garden
It’s easy to draw parallels between today and the 1930′s, given the Great Depression/Recession, and the fact that much of our infrastructure–built as part of an effort during the big Depression-Era push to get Americans working–is now reaching the end [...]
Tagged with: 1930's, 1940's, Athena Grayson, environmentalism, gardening, History, Making Things, Science, values, victory gardens
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Me and Murphy: A Tale of Solar Ovens
I admit it. It is I who is responsible for all the severe weather most of the country’s been experiencing. I’m sure of it. See, the kids and I have been working on making a solar oven.
Solar ovens are not [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, creativity, DIY, environmentalism, Geekdom, green solutions, Making Things, moms made of WIN, murphy, Retrotech, Science, solar cooking, Yer Mama Wears Combat Boots
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A World Without Gas
A hundred million years ago, something died. Actually, a lot of somethings died. After they died, rocks fell on them, and more rocks fell on those rocks. Eventually, all those rocks created enough pressure and, along with the heat of [...]
Tagged with: alt energy, Athena Grayson, biochar, DIY, environmentalism, History, Making Things, Retrotech, retrotech, Science, science, terra preta, wood gasifier
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The New Green and The Old “Make-Do”
In spite of the increase in visibility over recent years, the “Green” movement has been chugging along for decades. Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s environmental classic, “Silent Spring,” in which Carson raised consciousness about the [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, environmentalism, green solutions, Making Things, making things, Retrotech, retrotech, Science, science
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