tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-158474602024-09-04T11:20:41.742-04:00The Writing CornerBeth Wellington on politics and cultureBeth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.comBlogger869125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-19692910067199200542018-03-05T19:59:00.002-05:002018-03-06T19:48:55.738-05:00Peggy Seeger: The First Time Ever
The photo is a screen shot from the video of a 2016 workshop that she did on "Controversial Songs" at SERFA (Southeast Regional Folk Alliance--a regional chapter of the Folk Alliance International) in Black Mountain, NC.
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If you want to know what Peggy Seeger is up to, I recommend this video of the 2016 workshop that she did on "Controversial Songs" at Beth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-34117745260209910822018-02-19T20:54:00.000-05:002018-02-19T21:02:37.305-05:00Amy Goldstein: Janesville and the Evisceration of the Working Class
Screen shot of Amy Goldstein's talk at Politics and Prose.
Washington Post reporter Amy Goldstein is at Virginia Tech today as part of the Community Voices series, talking about Janesville (Simon and Schuster, 2017), her book on the evisceration of the working class in Wisconsin and the United States. Goldstein won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 as part of the team that coveredBeth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-80061087428501805332018-02-17T16:50:00.000-05:002018-02-19T19:46:37.833-05:00Guest Post by Elizabeth Englander: Ten Ways Schools, Parents and Communities Can Prevent School Shootings Now
Photo by Miami photojournalist Wilfredo Lee for AP accompanied this piece of the same title published by The Conversation published 2/16/18 by Elizabeth Englander (profile, email) Professor of Psychology, and the Director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center at Bridgewater State University.
The Conversation is a collaboration between editors and academics to provide newsBeth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-26830436977281092502018-02-16T17:10:00.000-05:002018-02-21T15:42:54.332-05:00Guest Post by Brian DeLay: The American Public has Power Over the Gun Business – Why Doesn't It Use It?
Photo by Miami photojournalist Wilfredo Lee for AP accompanied this piece by Brian DeLay published by The Conversation published 2/16/18, an updated version of an article, "How the US government created and coddled the gun industry," published by the Conversation on 10/9/2017. The photographs in the body are also from the piece.
The Conversation is a collaboration between editors and Beth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-56143530278436165762018-02-08T16:14:00.000-05:002018-02-08T16:23:53.904-05:00The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Coal Colonization and Opioid Addiction
That's West Virginia native Wayne Coombs writing in "Analysis: the Pharmaceutical Colinization of Appalachia, was published by Daily Yonder on 2/7/18 and forwarded by Roy Silver, professor of sociology on the Cumberland campus of Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College since 1989.
Coombs, a counseling professor at Marshall University from 1991 to 2015 and directorBeth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-42725181461832174692018-01-16T21:11:00.000-05:002018-01-23T14:26:47.434-05:00Midwinter in the Land of the Dead
Photo by Jacques Descloitres of a low-pressure system swirling off the southeastern coast of Greenland, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC, 9/4/2003
MIDWINTER IN THE LAND OF THE DEAD
January 4, it's single digits,
never mind the windchill.
Arriving home at dark,
knees stiff, feet numb, I contemplate
frostbite, burrow under thrift store
comforters lined Beth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-30708459249093111212018-01-03T11:26:00.001-05:002018-01-03T11:26:38.325-05:00Cranberry Salsa
Photo from Cassy Joy Garcia's blog, Fed and Fit.*I got a version of this recipe from my friend Martha Biggar of Kelley Family Farm, a vender at the Blacksburg Farmers' Market and adapted it for the Friendsgiving celebration for Glade Road Growing and Rising Silo Brewery in 2017. It was so popular that I continued to make it for potlucks through New Year's Eve.Ingredients12 ounce bagBeth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-9624718133772541252018-01-02T15:54:00.000-05:002018-01-03T10:55:17.138-05:00Integrative Therapy Shows Promising Alternative for Opioid Overprescription
The photo of fentanyl (a synthetic opioid as much as 100 times stronger than heroin) by Joe Amon accompanied Jesse Paul's November 30 story for the The Denver Post.
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In June 2016, in the face of wide use of opioids, American Physical Therapy Association launched a campaign to promote physical therapy as an alternative pain treatment.
A year earlier, the insurer Kaiser PermanenteBeth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-17519808914308702042017-12-27T11:54:00.000-05:002017-12-29T15:42:13.701-05:00Shelly Simond Contests Court Decision Calling Election a Tie
The drawing for the winner of Virginia 94th House of Delegates in Newport News race has been cancelled as Shelly Simonds (D) takes her case to court. A ballot showing votes for both the incumbent David Yancey (R) and Simonds, with the latter's name crossed out had been discarded as invalid and
At the end of the day, Republican and Democratic officials alike stated that they were satisfied Beth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-11626348494547702772017-12-21T20:02:00.004-05:002017-12-22T11:22:47.048-05:00Beth Macy: The Serfs of Appalachia
This MICHAEL WILLIAMSON/THE WASHINGTON POST photo accompanied Beth Macy's review of Ramp Hollow in the Wall Street Journal.
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"The Serfs of Appalachia, " Beth Macy's review of Ramp Hollow that appeared in the Wall Street Journal is behind a paywall, but your library may have a subscription. You can also read it, if you go to the link you get when you search on Google for the title.Beth Beth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-57427719394775008242017-12-19T22:01:00.002-05:002017-12-19T22:01:28.857-05:00Joe Giarratano Writes About Marie Deans
Yesterday, I when I got home I found a review copy of Peppers' A Courageous Fool: Marie Deans and Her Struggle against the Death Penalty (Vanderbilt, 2017), ISBN 9780826521613. When I opened it this morning, I saw that Joe Giarratano had written the eloquent introduction. On December 11, I had gotten a facebook message from poet and young adult novel author Mary Beth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-71847638089489145422017-12-08T11:04:00.000-05:002017-12-08T11:32:24.816-05:00Ken Ward, Jr. Selected for Partnership by ProPublica
Illustration is by Lyndon Hayes and used with permission. It accompanied "Sustained Outrage: Ken Ward Jr. stayed home to make a difference," Brent Cunningham's 11/28/2011 interview with the Charleston Gazette-Mail (WV)'s Ken Ward, Jr. in the Columbia Journalism Review. At the time Cunningham was managing editor of CJR and went on to become deputy editor. Since Beth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-55807739869267341922017-12-07T21:25:00.000-05:002017-12-10T22:36:40.930-05:00It saddens me that U.S. Senator Al Franken announced today that he will resign his Senate seat
Photo by Jacquelyn Martin, AP accompanied an NBC story. Caption: "Sen. Al Franken holds hands with his wife, Franni Bryson, as he leaves the Capitol after announcing his resignation."
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It's an odd photo. Franken smiling as he leaves the Senate, Frannie looking like she's being tugged along. And what's with the guy to the right of Franken staring intently at the camera. HisBeth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-32348206641940102892017-11-30T09:28:00.001-05:002017-11-30T10:16:16.158-05:00Teri Blanton: "American people need to know that the EPA has cooked the books to justify its decision to repeal "
Portrait of Teri Blanton from Robert Shetterly's series, "Americans Who Tell The Truth."
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Yesterday, while I was writing about retired miner Stanley Sturgill and his testimony against repeal of the Clean Power Plan, I looked at the list of the folks who had signed up to speak. There, almost at the top of the list of speakers for 11/29 was my friend Teri Blanton, former Beth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-77584832958965121092017-11-29T12:20:00.000-05:002017-12-01T10:56:08.945-05:00Stanley Sturgill on Our Health: "Scott Pruitt and President Trump are accelerating and cheering on the damage"
Photo by Chris Dorst of the Charleston Gazette-Mail via the Associated Press, as it appeared in Brady Dennis's (twitter) 11/28/17 Washington Post story, "In the heart of coal country, EPA gets an earful about Clean Power Plan’s fate." Caption: "Lindsay Pace, of Chattanooga, Tenn., testifies as retired coal miner and mine inspector Stanley Sturgill holds her son, TheoBeth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-40195882719467446102017-11-22T10:55:00.000-05:002017-11-22T10:56:30.149-05:00Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Toasted Pecans with Maple Miso Dijon Dressing
The photo was at the website for Bon Appétit Magazine -- no photographer credited.
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Ooh. This looked good. So I made up a recipe, even though my recipe duties are done for Glade Road Growing are done for the year and my Brussels sprouts from Catawba Valley Farms are long gone since Leighton Hodges stops bringing produce to the Blacksburg Farmers Market in October.
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ServesBeth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-32501654900418385562017-10-29T21:14:00.001-04:002017-10-29T21:35:22.675-04:00Fennel, Red Pepper and Purple Carrot Salad
Photo by Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times
JP tells me that the final main season share from Glade Road Growing for 2017 will include about a pound of purple carrots, a fennel bulb a red sweet pepper and an onion. This combined with some potatoes and garlic would make a great pureed soup, but it would not take advantage of the visual of the purple carrots, so I decided on a Beth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-53377940885809907402017-10-22T21:10:00.000-04:002017-10-22T21:11:38.646-04:00Cauliflower Couscous with Dried Fruit and Almonds
Photo for Epicurious by Chelsea Kyle.
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JP tells me this week's bag from Glade Road Growing should include cauliflower. While I like my cauliflower in florets or steaks, you can also use it in "rice" form as a low-carb and gluten-free substitute for semolina (a coarse grind of high-protein durum wheat) in couscous.
Apparently, Trader Joe's has found its "Beth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-55096660014337509462017-10-16T10:04:00.000-04:002017-10-16T10:04:09.402-04:00Lima Bean And Dill Kuku
Photo from Sanam Lamborn of The Persian Kitchen blog.
This week, JP tells me Glade Road Growing's bag will contain dill. While it's too late in the season potatoes or cukes--two of my favorites with fresh dill--the herb is used as a common ingredient in Persian cooking. You can combine it with rice or try my adaptation of Sanam Lamborn's recipe for Lima Bean Kuku, which is she Beth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-16818232690899101692017-10-08T20:54:00.002-04:002017-10-08T21:01:37.376-04:00Beer-Braised Greens
Photo by David Loftus
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Braising greens makes them more tender. My recipe uses porter or stout for a richer taste. The alcohol evaporates. If you'd rather not use beer, you can substitute 2 tablespoons of tomato paste thinned with water to make 1/2 cup.
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Serves 4
Ingredients:
Kale, beet greens or chard or spinach, turnip greens, collards, and/or arugula, rinsed Beth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-69009204087066417442017-10-03T11:06:00.000-04:002017-10-03T11:06:19.074-04:00Bok Choy and Tempeh (or Chicken or Pork) Stir Fry with Mushrooms, Sweet Peppers and Onions
Photo by Susanna Liang at Divine Healthy Food. Her recipe uses a red chili pepper so it's spicier.*Sally wrote me after I had developed recipes for tomatillo salsa, to say that the bag for Glade Road Growing this week would instead include bok choy, salad turnips, red pepper, red onion, arugula, lettuce mix and tomatoes. Here's my recipe for a stir fry using the bok choy, Beth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-91061755209853820272017-10-01T20:59:00.000-04:002017-10-01T21:00:35.939-04:00Three Tomatillo Salsas: Chopped, Blended OR Grilled
Photo accompanied a recipe by Kate Ramos at Chowhound (no photographer listed). You can find more of her "nueva Latina" recipes at her blog, ¡HOLA! JALAPEÑO.
JP tells me that this week's bag from Glade Road Growing will include tomatillos and other makings for salsa. I've included my favorite recipe for an easy peasy fresh salsa, plus more traditional recipes for a Beth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-20658489082410812012017-09-24T17:45:00.003-04:002017-09-24T17:48:50.125-04:00Red Pepper, Spinach and Sweet Potato Hash
Photo by Karielyn Tillman
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This week the bag from Glade Road Growing will include sweet peppers, and baby spinach. This hash makes a nice side to serve with leftover roast chicken or pork. If you'd like to make it a vegetarian meal instead, after the hash is cooked, stir in 2 cups of cooked drained black beans. Divide the hash into four sections. Make a slight well inBeth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-37842360230613303352017-09-17T21:09:00.002-04:002017-09-17T21:11:13.392-04:00Peperonata (Sautéed Bell Peppers With Tomato, Onion, and Garlic)
Photo by Vicky Wasik for Serious Eats.
The bag from Glade Road Growing this week will include salad mix, bell peppers and tomatoes. If your bell peppers have a reddish or yellowish tint, you can let them ripen on the counter and they will be sweeter. The traditional southern Italian recipes I've seen call for the colored peppers, but this is delicious with green peppers, too.  Beth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15847460.post-58622895396255363042017-09-10T21:01:00.001-04:002017-09-10T21:01:29.351-04:00Beth's Vegan Chili
Photo for Tracey Medeiros's The Vermont Farm Table Cookbook by Oliver Parini of Burlington, Vermont, which features a recipe for the chili served at Burlington's City Market/Onion River Co-op.
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JP tells me that this week's bag share from Glade Road Growing will include tomatoes and peppers, so I thought I'd give you my recipe for vegan chili.
Last week, I mentioned that I had Beth Wellingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318537209567202826noreply@blogger.com0