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Iowa wildflower Wednesday: Bumblebees and Partridge Peas (opens the original)
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Diane Porter of Fairfield first published this post in late August on My Gaia, an email newsletter “about getting to know nature” and “giving her a helping hand in our own backyards.” Diane also maintains the Birdwatching Dot Com website and bird blog. My garden has been a golden extravaganza this summer. Masses of Partridge Peas (Chamaecrista fasciculata) planted themselves with the seeds that fell from last year’s plants. For a couple of months, they have bloomed with enthusiasm and with no he
Long-lasting effects of September 11 (opens the original)
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Rick Morain is the former publisher and owner of the Jefferson Herald, for which he writes a regular column. This essay first appeared on Substack. Last week the United States and its people soberly remembered the stunning terrorist attacks that weaponized jetliners to kill thousands of people in the American homeland on September 11, 2001. Their deaths constitute the most tragic effect of the episode, and they continue as open wounds for family and friends of the victims. The attacks also gener
Double threat to the Boundary Waters: natural and man-made (opens the original)
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Rick Morain is the former publisher and owner of the Jefferson Herald, for which he writes a regular column. This essay first appeared on Substack. One fist of iron, the other of steelIf the right one don’t get you then the left one will—from “Sixteen Tons” as sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford That’s the challenge the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness faces today along the Minnesota-Ontario border. The pristine area, the largest U.S. designated wilderness region east of the Rocky Mountains and no
Lincoln's Civil War journey and the Schoolboy Soldiers of Rippey (opens the original)
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Rick Morain is the former publisher and owner of the Jefferson Herald, for which he writes a regular column. This essay first appeared on Substack. If the Confederate States of America had succeeded in winning, or negotiating, its independence from the United States of America in the Civil War, this year it would be celebrating its 165th birthday. The Confederacy declared itself a new nation on February 4, 1861. As a young kid I unconsciously confused the words “confederate” and “counterfeit.” T
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