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Driving south from Port Augusta, travelers could be forgiven for missing the sign to Ray Myers' hobby farm. On a sunny morning, the lead smelters of Port Pirie shimmer on the horizon to the south like an outback Venice, while to the north, the Flinders Ranges begin their majestic roll. They were partly what brought Sydney-born Myers, 64, to the area on holiday in 1966, and his love affair with the landscape has continued ever since. "Change color every hour," he says...
...Perhaps Myers' sign should be bigger, maybe even in neon, since what he is farming is every bit as fantastical as the surrounds. Follow the driveway to the rear of his otherwise ordinary house, and the mountains form a natural amphitheater around what is pure show business. As a sign hanging by the door of an enormous shed reads: GNOME FARM, SOUND HORN FOR SERVICE. Spilling out from the shed is a chorus of concrete creatures which Myers makes, repairs and sells to the public. He characterizes the latter as "licorice all-sorts-anyone who doesn't understand what...
...been the driving force behind Farm Aid for almost two decades. This year's concert [Sept. 30] is in Camden, N.J. Seems like an odd place for a Farm Aid show...
...never had a Farm Aid that far east, so we're going to try one. There's a lot of farmers in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York. We've had 20 years of Farm Aids hoping that Washington would pass a good deal so that farmers can make a living. There's a lot of people out there getting government subsidies, but it ain't going to the small farmers. It's going to the big guy who doesn't really need it, and it's putting farmers out of business all over the world...
...Mansfield would have it, perhaps I was responsible for endangering myself by being so immodest as to travel alone (at night no less!).Auspiciously, both Western and the more traditional Vietnamese gender roles are being broken down. Here, more and more women defy social conventions, stepping beyond family and farm to create their own economic opportunities. Try telling Trang, a woman I met who works six days a week in a bar and studies English and computer science all seven, that she would be better off at home with her rice-farmer parents; or Minh, a business student working twelve...