I just wrote a newspaper article about Maysville, Ohio, pop.: not much. It’s just a small cluster of homes that are loosely configured around an intersection on Rte. 309 here. But Maysville wasn’t always like that. In the mid-1800s, it … Continue reading →
Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Our campaign/research travels took us all over the country in the past 20 years, or so, to look at, among a host of things, Black issues. We volunteered at Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia, which … 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 went over the Washington Bridge out of Long Island and headed south on the New Jersey Turnpike. At a Service Plaza, I passed on a campaign card to a man from Massachussetts. He said he would have … Continue reading →
I met with Baylor University professor Tyler Horner again. He said adolescents today are flooded with choices around computer technology, television choices, other entertainment options… And in all this they have the luxury of (and time for) tremendously self-focused … Continue reading →
We’re in Americus, Georgia, at Koinonia Farm. Koinonia is a Christian farm community that was the backwater Selma and Montgomery of the Civil Rights Movement (way before Selma and Montgomery). It was here that Whites and Blacks worked … Continue reading →
In remembrance of the anniversary of Bloody Sunday 1965, which was honored today in Selma, Alabama, my son Jonathan and I went to the King Center in Atlanta. A tribute to the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the … Continue reading →
Three young couples from Texas, Iowa and Ohio, respectively, have come to LaGrange, Georgia, as part of a MissionYear Project. They are volunteering for the Alterna Community here, which is a cluster of homes set up for immigrant … Continue reading →
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day today, we read the kids some passages from the book: Let My People Go, which is about slavery in early America… During our campaign tours we have retraced the Civil Rights … Continue reading →
I was just telling someone yesterday that for Martin Luther King Day two years ago, our family rode on a Koinoinia float in the Martin Luther King Day parade in Americus, Georgia. Koinoinia was the backwater Selma and Montgomery … Continue reading →