Tag Archives: Blue Grass
Allegheny Front

Old is not new, thank goodness!

October 15, 2010 0 Comments

I live in an old place. Our farm sits on karst limestone, a sedimentary rock composed largely of the shells and skeletons of marine organisms that lived in a shallow sea several hundred million years ago.

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No pipe “unthaws” before its time

January 14, 2010 0 Comments

Like much of America, we in Blue Grass are slowly “unthawing,” which is how we phrase it out here. For 20 days after Christmas, two-thirds of the land of the free was moaning the frozen-pipe blues as temperatures stayed closer to zero.

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How Blue Grass might approach terrorism

January 7, 2010 3 Comments

In 26 years of living on the same speck of rural America, I’ve felt threatened once.

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