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...living in a farm town,” Martin says of his childhood. “The closest shopping mall was 25 minutes away. The closest movie theater was 20 minutes away. [Now] just going out into the busy streets [with] malls and shops … It’s really a contrasting environment...
...1920s, Sheeler had begun to think of the industrial landscape, even at its most unromantic--sheds and conveyor belts, assembly lines and smokestacks--as a place as beautiful as any farm country. It was a materialist faith with a long American pedigree, one that had found its way into the plainspoken art of Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins in the 19th century. Its essence was summed up for the 20th in the dictum of the poet William Carlos Williams, who was an acquaintance of Sheeler's and once sat for his camera: "No ideas but in things...
...Onion Galette, which originated on the pages of the Deep Springs College Cookbook. Deep Springs is an extremely small, two-year, all-male liberal arts college in the California dessert that Kirby attended before coming to Harvard. With a fresh garden and a panopoly of farm animals, the school is the ideal breeding ground for a fresh-foods cook...
Kirby reflects on the autumn day when he first tasted the galette: “The college had just acquired a few goats and we were experimenting with making our own chevre [goat cheese]. Tom, the college chef, believed in using ingredients from the farm in elegant ways—on that fall day, we enjoyed stately, multi-folded galettes made with our goat’s chevre, our chickens’ eggs, our heifers’ butter and our garden’s red onions. Essentially free-form pies, the gallettes come out of the oven like sunflowers with...
Some Vermonters argue that mining, while it may be a messy business, is literally in the state's veins and that Omya at least tries to mitigate some of its impact. Says Jerome Breton, 69, who lives on a 200-acre dairy farm adjacent to the Omya property: "This is a working-class community, and we need what few jobs Omya is going to create." Breton isn't even sure that most native Vermonters are opposed to the mine. "Outsiders are against it because they feel the quarry is going to interfere with their luxury of living. They're trying...