Corn – Exaggerated, Hard-Working, and Artistic

The back of this postcard says ‘Big and Corny’. We are advised that ‘Both pump and gravity irrigation, supplied from an underground river of water, support one of the most productive farm areas of the nation’ from this postcard. This is a postcard of The Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, where the external murals […]

When I Say ‘Hillbilly’, I Say It With A Smile

I live in Appalachia, and when I say ‘hillbilly” I say it with a smile. I say it with a smile because I know hillbillies, and find the people who will admit claim to being of this group quite a fine sort of people, and vastly different from the characters portrayed on The Beverly Hillbillies […]