An elderly black woman berates the mayor on television. Snow continues to fall around them, the squawk and flash of emergency vehicles filling the space that remains. The Blitz is on to clear the city in the aftermath of the fourth worst snowstorm to ever hit the region. Still, the villagers are [...]
Posts Tagged ‘rural’
Autumn
Oh, harvest moon.
I am born of you.
So orange.
So white.
He joins me, and we
croon to you, sleep
nights curled as corn
husks in the cooling air.
People and Places, Part Two
Connie
There’s not much distance between the church and the farm. Just follow winding Kregar Road past some houses and garbage bags dropped, here and there, by strangers. Reminders of the outside world leading the way home from worship. Her mother left for a time when she was young, but didn’t come back full. Half the [...]
Bill Daniel Interview
County Line Press would like to thank filmmaker Bill Daniel for sitting down to talk to us at his home in Braddock, PA. The following is an excerpt from our conversation. For more information about Bill Daniel, visit his website at www.billdaniel.net.
CLP You’ve been all over the country; how did you make your [...]
SPF Pittsburgh
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!
People and Places, Part One
Wade
The only thing longer than his rap sheet was his beard. Full and unruly. Peanut shells and ambitions nestled there, forgotten amid acne scars, DUIs, hits from a joint. Years ago he asked me, at a point in a day when the sun settled below the tree-line and the world seemed like one sweet stain, [...]
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 [...]
Grateful for Ramps
Well, last Saturday, my ramp festival dreams were realized. Fellow County Line Press collaborators Jessica, Patrick, and I left Pittsburgh for the Mason Dixon Ramp Festival in Mount Morris, Pennsylvania, and, one hour later, we were marveling at the variety of ramp delicacies and the enthusiasm of the other ramp lovers at the festival.
We spent [...]