Category: History
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Things Fall Apart (Achebe 1958)
After reading Ballantyne (1861) I was looking for a book about colonialism from an African perspective. Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe (who was Igbo and grew up in British Colonial Nigeria) is exactly the kind of book I was looking for. The book starts off by drawing you into West African Igbo (or…
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Buster Keaton—how did I miss this?
My public school education has failed me. I have heard the name Buster Keaton used from time to time and had a vague idea about him being in some old films (wasn’t it either him or Charlie Chaplin that hung off of the clock tower?), but in my last blog post, I mentioned in passing…
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Strawberries
Another plant that might be planted in the fall, in addition to garlic, that comes to mind are strawberries. Honestly, I have a bit of an aversion to growing strawberries. We had them in our garden for a while when I was a kid, and they seemed like they were more work (weeding) than they…
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Serpent Spear-Onions
We are planning to move later this year, and I am really hoping to be able to have a garden again. I grew up gardening, but we haven’t had one in decades because of living in apartments in cities and moving every few years (although I have always grown potted plants in our apartments). If…