Visit County Line Press July 18th and 19th at SPF Pittsburgh, which is being held at the Regina Miller Gallery on the Carnegie Mellon Campus! We’ll have plenty of rural goodies and, of course, mint poetry!
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May Flowers
So far, May has been an exciting month for County Line Press. mint has arrived and debuted on May 1st at Carnegie Mellon University’s Adamson Awards. If you would like your own copy of our neighborhoods volume, please e-mail us at: editors@countylinepress.com
Also, Patrick and I traveled out to Braddock to interview filmmaker Bill Daniel. [...]
In Roads
The Mason Dixon Ramp Festival last weekend offered many pleasing amenities and attractions for its attendees. The palate was delighted by ramp dogs, ramps and potatoes, ramp wine, homemade jams, and fresh ramps to take for cooking. (The deep fried ramp disappointed, though, and left some with aching stomachs.) The gathering presented some exotic examples [...]
Ramped-Up
Every spring, all throughout the Appalachians, ramps–the garlicky cousins of the onion–abound. Also ubiquitous are ramp festivals, held in many rural municipalities, where ramps are served up raw, fried with bacon, or layered on sandwiches.
It has become my very recent dream to attend a ramp festival this spring, and I have been searching for [...]