News from the Front Porch Republic
Greetings from the Porch, It's been a fun week celebrating FPR's 15th anniversary. For an amateur operation that runs on bubble gum and bailing wire, that's...
News from the Front Porch Republic
Greetings from the Porch, It's still early March, but I pulled our maple taps last weekend and filtered our syrup. This early spring is making me worried for...
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Greetings from the Porch, It's spring break here at Grove City College, so I got out for one last jaunt in search of steelhead before the warming weather...
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Greetings from the Porch, FPR's student intern Natalie Symons stepped down in recent weeks. She did a great job formatting essays, corresponding with...
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Greetings from the Porch, Last week I had the chance to help a colleague process the meat from a cow he'd raised. The craft of butchering is a high and...
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Greetings from the Porch, This past week I spent a couple of days in Florida speaking at a university in West Palm Beach. It's a strange part of the country,...
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Greetings from the Porch, This week we attended a meeting in town to hear from local organizations trying to prevent a landfill nearby from opening up and...
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Greetings from the Porch, Somehow, even though it's still January and we had stretches of zero degree weather this past week, it seems to be time to tap my...
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Greetings from the Porch, We're in the midst of a lovely winter wonderland here in western PA. Last winter, we never had much snow on the ground, but we were...
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Greetings from the Porch, As our Christmas travels wind to a close, I've had several reminders this week of the far-flung community that Porchers constitute....
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Greetings from the Porch, One of the great gifts of school breaks is the opportunity to do plenty of leisurely reading. I enjoy reading for class or a...
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Greetings from the Porch, It's been a busy year at FPR. We had a great conference in Madison with Paul Kingsnorth and many of you Porchers, and we published...
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Greetings from the Porch, We had a good snow this week in western PA to get us in the Christmas spirit. I am taking a break from my weekly Water Dipper...
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Greetings from the Porch, It's finals week here at Grove City, but as I didn't have any finals the first day, I snuck up north to do some steelheading....
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Greetings from the Porch, FPR tends to steer clear of presidential politics. Lots of people obsess about who will occupy the White House, but it doesn't seem...
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Greetings from the Porch, We've had days this week where the high temp was in the low 20s and days when it was in the mid 50s. So I'm not sure if winter has...
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Greetings from the Porch, My email inbox is filling up with organizations telling me about special opportunities to get an early start on Giving Tuesday and...
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Greetings from the Porch, As promised, John Murdock has released both of Paul Kingsnorth's conference talks via the Brass Spittoon podcast. Stay tuned for...
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Greetings from the Porch, The leaves are almost all off the oak trees here, but the temperatures still haven't dropped. So this week we took the rowboat out...
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Greetings from the Porch, The video recordings of the conference sessions are now available. We'll be releasing the audio versions on the Brass Spittoon...