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...small vineyard owned by their father, an immigrant from Italy's northern Piedmont. 'We had a tractor in the barn, but we didn't have enough money to buy gas,' recalls Ernest. 'Instead, we used four mules and worked the vineyards seven days a week from daylight to dusk.' With the first stirrings of [Prohibition's] repeal, they dug up $5,900.23 in capital and set out to produce their own wine. They rented a railroad shed for $60 a month, bought a $2,000 grape crusher and redwood tanks on 90- to 180-day terms. There was one nettlesome...
...have been unsuccessful. The simplest solution would be for drivers in the bush-especially those at the wheels of big trucks, which are the most murderous-to change their attitude: stay alert, slow down on single-lane highways, try not to drive when animal activity peaks at dawn and dusk. But Ramp's not holding his breath for the revolution: "I'm afraid people don't seem to care about wildlife too much," he says. "Some even deliberately target kangaroos. It's very disappointing...
Traveling through the Nullarbor at dusk, you'll often find a wedgetail eagle hunkering down on road kill for its final feed of the day before taking off, slow and steady, like a jumbo jet into the wind. Doug Pekin, 66, has something of the eagle's noble bearing as he goes about his business, looking for signs of strength and weakness in the landscape, keeping the wilder forces of nature at bay. "On the pay slips I'm a boundary rider," he says, when quizzed, "but the locals call me a dogger...
Thankfully, “Dusk and Summer” doesn’t disappoint. I still haven’t any clue what the lyrics to the songs are—the second track “Reason To Believe” is largely unintelligible, outside of its admonition to “breeeathe.” Already there, Chris...
...Places You Have Come to Fear the Most” got me through my senior year of high school, and “Dusk and Summer” has arrived just in time for concentration anxiety, Core science courses, and tutorial papers...