Trego's Mountain Ear

by Will Wright, The Daily YonderJuly 22, 2024 What are the best ways to nurture rural communities? How do perceptions of rural places affect the people who live there? What are the best ways to tell rural stories? The Rural Assembly will explore these questions and more at Rural Assembly Everywhere on Thursday, August 1, Read more

Within our culture, each of us has something that offends us.  It can be – it usually is – something, usually a freedom of behavior, that we want to take away from everyone.  Less than five hundred years back, King James commissioned the  English translation of the bible.  He had a vested interest in the Read more

I don’t tend to buy into conspiracy theories – generally, I view government as populated by well-meaning people who aren’t all that bright.  I think it was George Carlin who advised, “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”  In general, stupidity is an adequate explanation.  When it becomes inadequate, adding in a Read more

Spotted this one on instapundit: Too old, entirely too old. “Peruvian guano has become so desirable an article to the agricultural interest of the United States that it is the duty of the Government to employ all the means properly in its power for the purpose of causing that article to be imported into the Read more

Things to know: Changes to the bylaws: anyone over 18 living, or having property, in the TFS fire district is a voting member. This is a slight change from the nominal membership fee. The Land Grant: It wasn’t a vote on settling the easement, per say, so much as it was a vote to entertain Read more

I was only 18 when the Convulsion happened.  The Dems were in charge of every branch of government, yet Lyndon Johnson decided against running for reelection.  So the Dems went into their convention much like today – with an incumbent President who couldn’t win . . . and he was facing Richard Nixon. President Johnson Read more