Wolf Pen is the way many people in this country lived, when we were still agrarian and made do with much less, in the material sense, than we consider essential now. We lived in a few small rooms, we farmed, milled, carpentered, built, ran cattle or horses—managed to survive.
Women, Land and Missed Opportunities
Women in the United Sates now control 11.2 trillion dollars in investible wealth, 39 percent of the total. But are we wielding the decisions?
Just A Girl From Kentucky
There is a thread connecting Jill Abramson to the girl buried in my woods: both confident, outspoken, strong women, they faced an opposition they perhaps could not have imagined because it is almost never mentioned: the opposition of the male establishment, in the person of a famous publisher or in the person of a nameless drunk, who made them examples of the price we must still be prepared to pay.
And Now It’s Running!
The Wolf Pen Mill millstone is turning for the first time in three decades!
Can We Still Grind Corn? Wolf Pen Mill, Kentucky
Stream water will gush over the wheel, and it will turn, and the stones will grind, and the old building will shake, just as it was all intended to do more than 150 years ago.
What It Means to Save the Land
When I was a woods-running girl, years ago in Kentucky, I explored every inch of the old overgrown farms I could get into.