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The Forbidden Forest
The vast area around the French city of Verdun remains suspended in the year 1916. During the First World War, these hills and gorges were cratered by a continuous ten-month-long artillery Continue reading
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Bucking a Stiff Ebb Tide
She came a-rattling upriver, a battered old trawler bucking a stiff ebb tide. She was plywood and fiberglass but there was an angular beauty about her. Crude blue letters on the Continue reading
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All You Can Eat
The green dumpster behind Red Lobster was nearly empty when I lifted the lid. Through the effluvium of yesterday’s supper, way down, sat a couple of pretty blue boxes. I hitched Continue reading
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Artifice v. Pastoral
THE OCEANS WERE JUST BEGINNING freeze over and the polar bears were prowling, in this, the hungriest season of the bear year. For the Inuit in the high Arctic, it was Continue reading
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Nuclear Caribou
See also “Uranium Mining, Native Resistance, and the Greener Path,” by Winona LaDuke, from the same issue. A CARIBOU CALVING GROUND – Nunavut, Canada: June days lengthen and snow melts to Continue reading