Trego's Mountain Ear

by Lane Wendell Fischer, The Daily Yonder July 26, 2024 Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you see here? You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article and Read more

I don’t follow politics especially closely, and I’m seldom acquainted with the state level politics of anywhere far from home. So it was a bit of a surprise, when Mark Kelly came up as a possible VIP pick for Harris, that it wasn’t just a name I knew, but someone I had actually heard speak. Read more

It looks pretty good for a 50-year-old percussion revolver.  Dad bought me my first revolver – a 22 High Standard – but the 1858 Remington replica was the first handgun I bought for myself.  I think the cost was $37.95 plus shipping – the top of the barrel reads Euroarms, Brescia, made in Italy.  The Read more

No one whom I have read sums up the libertarian stance half so well as the late L. Neil Smith.  In his career as a science-fiction author and a libertarian activist, he wrote many comments that applied libertarian philosophy to specific instances.  For example: “We’re all a bunch of badminton birdies who just got batted Read more

by Claire Carlson, The Daily YonderJuly 31, 2024 Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Like what you see? Join the mailing list for more rural news, thoughts, and analysis in your inbox each week. A common complaint among my friends is that there are too many Read more

On the first of August, Gander returned to the field – not with his flock, but with his flight.  He now has a flight of 34 lesser Canadian geese following him, training for the Fall migration.  This time, the landing was on the mowed field, not on the water.  We still have 2 adult geese Read more