Wolfe Island Wind Towers

Northern New York is obsessed with wind energy.
During the past 3-4 years, Lewis County farmers leased sections of their land to energy corporations, who constructed a series of wind towers on spaces in between their pastures.  Last year the Associated Press ran a story, “Windmills Split Town and Family,” about a local man who suggests [...]

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Living with War in Watertown

This morning I was reading a section of Nancy Welch’s Living Room (2008),a pedagogical theory book that tackles the task of teaching public writing and writing as resistence in the post-9/11 era of government infringement on intellectual freedom. One of the “success stories” Welch mentions is a new coffee house in my hometown, Watertown, [...]

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