While in Carrabelle, Florida (pop. 2,778), we got to know Randy Harrison and Joan Matey. They’re married. Joan is a local artist who specializes in various art mediums (paints, pencil drawing, miniature sculptures…) Randy, 62, is a … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2011
We have come to Carabelle, Florida (pop. 2,778) to, in part, participate at the Annual River Front Festival… During the event, I met with former Carrabelle Mayor Mel Kelly. She told me one of her biggest accomplishments was … Continue reading
Tying up loose ends from the week… At Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia, I talked with one of the farm supervisors, Jerry. He said he’d just read in Acres Magazine that GMOs were actually attacking microbes in … Continue reading
We got to the Gulf Coast on the Florida panhandle on the night of the anniversary of the Deep Water Horizon oil rig explosion. Vigils were being held along the coast from Florida to Louisiana. Earlier in the … Continue reading
While all eyes were riveted (sort of) on the Michelle Obama plane landing saga, the ‘almost First Lady’ Liz was in a much more precarious situation today in Tallahassee, Florida. We travel in two camper / campaign vehicles. … Continue reading
We continued further south, stopping at Koinoinia Farm in Americus, Georgia. This was the backwater Selma to Montgomery of the Civil Rights Movement. On this farm in the late ’40s, blacks and whites lived and worked together in … Continue reading
We have launched on our next tour leg… Our first stop was Macon, Georgia — not by design. We got a flat. At Yancey Tires, owner Bill Yancey (calloused greasy hands and a rumpled shirt that read: … Continue reading
I met with Tevyn East who travels the country putting on a one woman The Affording Hope Project stage performance. The crux of the presentation (combining song, story telling, prayer…) is to explore the links between faith, ecology and … Continue reading