Retired teacher and native son of Homer, New York, Martin Sweeney has written a captivating account of three other native sons who played pivotal roles in Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and the United States’ history. Just released from McFarland & Company is Lincoln’s Gift from Homer, New York: A Painter, an Editor and a Detective. The painter, Francis Carpenter, brushed “The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation… [Read More]
Filed Under: assassination, Auburn, Civil War, Eli Devoe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Emancipation Proclamation, Finger Lakes, Francis Carpenter, Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, Homer, Lincoln, Lincoln's Gift from Homer New York, Martin Sweeney, New York, Underground Railroad, upstate New York, William Seward, William Stoddard
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“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water,” W.H. Auden, First Things First. Emotions run high in the issues involving ‘hydrofracking’ in the southern tier of New York State. The Marcellus Shale deposits of natural gas are extracted using the force of water and sand mixed with a secret toxic mix of chemicals to fracture the shale and release the gas. Greed, jealousy, betrayal,… [Read More]
Filed Under: Bill McKibben, Cayuga Lake, chemicals, climate change, Eaarth, End of Country, Finger Lakes, freshwater, gas industry, groundwater contamination, Having Faith, hydrofracking, Living Downstream, Love, Marcellus Shale, Maude Barlow, natural gas, Nature, New York, oil, passion, Pennsylvania, pollution, Rachel Carson, Raising Elijiah, Seamus McGraw, Susan Steingraber, vandana Shiva, W.H. Auden, water, Water Wars