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thoreau at walden: domestic arrangements

…At the end of his first eight months at the pond he found that he had spent a total of $8.74 for food- an average of twenty-seven cents a week. Clothing for the same period cost him only $8.40, and … Continue reading

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on the pond

The camper in the back yard. Although his cabin was only a mile and a half from home, and his sister brought him freshly baked cookies, Henry David Thoreau did find a wilderness by Walden and time to develop a … Continue reading

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easel does it: the easel weasels

There is much babbling in the alt-politic community about the “buy local” phenomenon; a return to the roots and away, ostensibly, from the creative destruction of capitalism and a time travel voyage to more idyllic conditions, a kind of American … Continue reading

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sock it to them: laughing last in our discontent

Laugh-In. canned laughter and forced hip…. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): In the mid to late 1960’s, the psychedelic underground revolution had already started to wane. it was a literal flash-in-the-pan. All of the original pioneers had morphed into varying sorts of … Continue reading

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