The Salem Witch Trials took place all over Massachusetts colony.
In Andover, almost everyone accused confessed, but, according to a petition mentioned in a TV show:
“from the information we have had and
the discourse some of us have had with the prisoners, we have reason
to think that the extream urgency that was used with some of them by
their friends and others who privately examined them, and the fear
they were then under, hath been an inducement to them to own such
things, as we cannott since find thay are conscious of;”
I was familiar with that since some of my ancestors defended some of the accused,
and more ancestors moved south after that nightmare.
Gretchen and I were watching
Salem’s Lot, Season 9, Episode 2, of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
An ancestor of guest Jeff Daniels signed a peition on behalf of their wives and daughters who had been accused of being witches.
This petition was Continue reading →
How to grow your own vegetables for food and/or profit,
according to UGA Griffin, at the end of this month.
You can register by printing and mailing the
PDF form, or through the event
website. -jsq
University of Georgia Horticulture Presents:
Vegetable Growers Workshop
This program will cover many aspects of how to grow your own Continue reading →
Still thinking about what resolutions to make for the new year? Resolve
to come to
South Georgia Growing Local 2015 conference at Pine Grove
Middle. You can
register and pay on-line or mail a check and reserve
your place now.
720×540 Martha Griffis and her corn, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html
720×540 Silver Queen corn by Martha Griffis, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html
720×540 Group gets information about the steamer and blancher, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html
720×540 Juicer, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html
720×540 More about the juicer, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html
720×540 Corn into the steamer, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html
720×540 Coring peaches, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html
720×540 Almost ready for the juicer, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html
720×540 Lids and rings sterilized, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html
720×540 Chopping up the peaches, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html
720×540 Creaming corn, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html
720×540 Fruit into juicer, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html
720×540 Finished product: peach jam, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html
Our outing today to the canning plant was a grand success. We had peas shelled, blanched and bagged and canned some peaches!
The canning plant at Lowndes High School is a wonderful resource
in Lowndes County open now to the public for shelling, canning and
more. Behind the Lowndes High School on Norman Drive.
We spend our lives being paranoid about death, murder, homicide,
you name it, it’s on the front page of every paper, CNN…. Look at homicide at the bottom, for God’s sake!
Every single one of those ones in the red is a diet-related disease.
Any doctor, any specialist, will tell you that.
The top three are heart disease, cancer, and stroke.
Number 6 is diabetes.
Those are the ones in red on Jamie Oliver’s graph.
Homicide is number 15.
See CDC for numbers.
(
In 2006 72,449 people died of diabetes and 18,573 of homicide.
You’re almost 4 times as likely to die of diabetes.
And about 40 times more likely to die of heart disease.)
I want to show a picture of my friend Brittney.
She’s sixteen years old.
She’s got six years to live.
Because of the food that she’s eaten.
She’s the third generation of Americans that hasn’t grown up within a food
environment where they’ve been taught to cook at home
or in school.
Or her mum. Or her mum’s mum.
She has six years to live!
More pictures of people with very round faces and rounder bodies:
This is a normal family, guys!.
We need to change normal.
That’s what Jamie Oliver wants to do.
Obesity leads to diabetes and heart disease.
And what leads to obesity?
Lack of exercise combined with food stuffed with
high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), salt, and fat
in massive portions.
Fast food has taken over the whole country, we know that.
Time to take it back.
I wish I could come up here today and hang up a cure for AIDS or cancer,
you’d be fighting and scrambling to get to me.
This, all this bad news, is preventable. That’s the good news.
It’s very preventable.
How?
Vote with your food purchases.
Demand a food ambassador in every supermarket.
Demand big food businesses back food education.
Get the government to work with the fast food purveyors
to wean us off the fat, sugar, and salt.
Schools, ages 4-whenever: proper fresh food cooked from local sources on site.
Every child should leave school knowing how to cook ten recipes
that will save their life.
Corporate American should feed their staff properly.
You can care and be commercial.
That’s his prescription.
Doesn’t sound so hard, does it?
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