That’s right, the nine foot tall longleaf I’m holding is only three years old. They told us they would never grow without spraying. But we weeded these trees with hoes and gloves, and here they are.
Picture of John S. Quarterman with trees by Gretchen Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 2 July 2010.
John, have you by chance ever seen this in your travels around the Savannah area? I found this in some of the stuff John had in his Korea scrapbook.Here it is, yellowed and tattered:
John Feazell, who was principal at all three of Pine Grove Elementary, Hahira Middle School, and Lowndes High School when I was there (I sometimes thought he was protectively following me around), had a scrapbook of pictures and other material from his service in Korea as a Sergeant in the Army. He had showed me this item some years ago. It’s a propaganda flyer, one of many dropped by the North Koreans on Allied troops.
It reads:
A FATHER’S MEMORIAL TO SON KILLED IN KOREAA Savannnah, Ga., father has ordered this big boulder-type memorial to his 19-year-old son who was killed in action in the fighting in Korea. It will be placed on the edge of the highway between Blomingdale and Pooler, Ga., U.S.A. THE POLITICIANS ELECTED IN 1952 ARE JUST AS READY TO SEE YOU KILLED AS THOSE ELECTED IN 1948. THIS WAR IS SENSELESS! GET TOGETHER TO STOP IT!
OK, it should be possible to find a large block of stone like that. The game’s afoot, as Sherlock Holmes would say!
-jsq
Pumpkin in the hand,
I like pumpkin when I dance.
Pictures of Gretchen Quarterman in the pumpkin patch by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 2 July 2010.
Jeffrey Smith, author of Seeds of Deception,
writes today about
Refined Foods are Bad, But These May Be Far Worse:
Government officials around the globe have been coerced, infiltrated, and paid off by the agricultural biotech giants.The result is humans as guinea pigs:In Indonesia, Monsanto gave bribes and questionable payments to at least 140 officials, attempting to get their genetically modified (GM) cotton approved.
[1] In India, one official tampered with the report on Bt cotton to increase the yield figures to favor Monsanto.
[2] In Mexico, a senior government official allegedly threatened a University of California professor, implying “We know where your children go to school,” trying to get him not to publish incriminating evidence that would delay GM approvals.
[3] While most industry manipulation and political collusion is more subtle, none was more significant than that found at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Since GM foods are not properly tested before they enter the market, consumers are the guinea pigs. But this doesn’t even qualify as an experiment. There are no controls and there’s no monitoring. Without post-marketing surveillance, the chances of tracing health problems to GM food are low. The incidence of a disease would have to increase dramatically before it was noticed, meaning that millions may have to get sick before a change is investigated. Tracking the impact of GM foods is even more difficult in North America, where the foods are not labeled. Regulators at Health Canada announced in 2002 that they would monitor Canadians for health problems from eating GM foods. A spokesperson said, “I think it’s just prudent and what the public expects, that we will keep a careful eye on the health of Canadians.” But according to CBC TV news, Health Canada “abandoned that research less than a year later saying it was ‘too difficult to put an effective surveillance system in place.'” The news anchor added, “So at this point, there is little research into the health effects of genetically modified food. So will we ever know for sure if it’s safe?”[30]We might better start finding out.
There’s much more in the article, all copiously documented at least with citations, and often with links to the actual articles.
-jsq
They were already full of squash (yellow and white), zucchini, and greens before we added some sweet corn.
Picture by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 June 2010.
Picture of Gretchen with zucchini of various sizes by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 June 2010.
He runs down to the bottom of the oak tree, picks up a nut, climbs back up, and eats it. Continue reading
Robert Jefferson has a few arrowheads to show us.
Four cases of them, collected over the years.
Here he’s holding a couple of awls, and demonstrating that one of them
is right-handed:
Here are some pottery shards: Continue reading
We haven’t done one of these in a while: a video drive-through
of a canopy road of south Georgia.
This one is Beatty Mill Creek Road in northeast
Lowndes County. So far northeast its mailing address is Ray City.
It’s not all canopy, but there are a number of stretches of it.
Video by John S. Quarterman, 7 June 2010.
