Update: Covid-19 nears Kentuckiana

I normally use my mid-month post for an *An Agrarian Take* essay, but today I felt the need to post this brief message instead. My agrarian originally written for today post will appear here in mid-April instead. This morning there are 2,174 cases of Covid-19 in the United States. The Covid-19 coronavirus has arrived in …

Fractured Worldviews, Publishing, and the Future of GKS

I had an approximately 1100 word essay written for today, concerning politics, the concept of democracy, and the rise of Bernie Sanders from the far left to Democratic forerunner. It would have been my first political essay at GKS since last March, when I criticized Yang Gang. I had already uploaded and scheduled my essay …

An Agrarian Take #5: The Outhouse

Today I would like to talk about a past feature of agrarian life: the outhouse. Our ancestors used these, and some of us still have one standing on our property. I have some interesting familial stories to share. Obviously, a place for waste disposal is a fact of life. In early America, this took the …

Natural Order

“As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths”.---Isaiah 3:12 Today I would like to (relatively) briefly address a very complex topic, that of the natural order of a society. Late last year …

An Agrarian Take #4: The Internet

As agrarians, or aspiring agrarians, how much focus should we have on the internet? Should it captivate us, or bore us? The internet as we know it has only existed for around 30 years. And yet it has consumed mankind’s life, like no other invention before it. It distracts man from his day, and his …

John Casor, the Inconvenient Truth

Happy New Year GKS readers! Let us start out 2020 with a powerful (but little mentioned) historical fact that changes the *slavery reparations* debate a bit. Who was John Casor? a tobacco field, much like John Casor likely worked John Casor was a Negro indentured servant in early Virginia, likely employed in the tobacco fields. …

An Agrarian Take #3: Doc Martin “Work” Boots

This Agrarian Take will be practical, not theoretical. In the summer of 2018, I got a pair of Doc Martin brand works boots for agricultural use. By the beginning of the 2019 garden season, they were rough. Now they are basically trashed. I love Corcoran brand combat boots. Corcorans are well designed, of quality material …