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A poem for these times

Last week I left town for a few days to join some friends who were walking a segment of the 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail. Instead of spending the night on the trail, we opted for a modest bed and breakfast in the equally modest Hot Springs, N.C. That is where I saw this Wendell Berry poem…

Letters to the Editor

LETTER FROM HURRICANE HELL Editor, I just returned from hell. It can be found in a vast area between Biloxi. Miss., and New Orleans. I served briefly at a makeshift shelter in a small part of that seemingly endless stretch of utter devastation in a place that was once Bay St. Louis, Miss. While it…

Get your oompah on

Quietly and consistently, Savannah’s Oktoberfest celebration has become the area’s second-largest public event — second only to that really big deal that goes on here each March. “We’ll get 200,000 people to attend over the course of the weekend, depending on the weather,” says Kenny Hill, assistant director of the Savannah Waterfront Association. “If the…


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