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Alford, Massachusetts: Mandy stood there with her old Nikon film camera, snapping photo after photo of the rural landscape. It was difficult to describe the wonderful feeling of there not being a single cell phone in sight; the only modern technology around was the faint blue glow of a cathode ray tube television in the window of a nearby house, and a few cars and trucks parked in crumbling gravel driveways. She was allowed to see this place, one that would likely be ruined by the 21st century as time went on... places like these were extremely hard to find these days. A world of wood-burning cookstoves and the waxy smell of Paraffin, laundry hung out to dry, rusty steel bridges over streams that reflected the bright blue skies, apple pies left out on windowsills... a world of hard work with very little to show for it aside from the sunlight beaming down on a proud community. And Mandy wanted to trap it all in her Kodak film rolls and rescue it from the future.
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photography
earth
television
future
past
love
cook-stove
glow
laundry
traditional
nikon
kodak
kodachrome
cell-phone
farm
pie
massachusetts
grim
country
digital
missing
nostalgic
small-town
film
peace
texting
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Rebecca McNutt |
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Your topsoil's a disaster area -- it's starved for nitrogen, it's been fertilized for years by the criminally insane, and whatever thief put in your irrigation system ought to be flogged through the fleet.
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humor
farm
land
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Peter S. Beagle |
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They were relentless, brilliant scavengers with a keen sense of craftiness, and no human being could outwit them. The kind of cunning mischief and competition that a murder of crows possessed was unbeatable, and the war between farmer and fowl was a never-ending tale of woe which often led purely to bankruptcy.
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nature
farm
farmer
country
bird
crow
raven
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Rebecca McNutt |
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Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again.
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farm
local
sustainable
food
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