If we’re to go down, let us go down swinging . . .

    I grew up in rural Mississippi, and was witness to a real American story, fully of both success and failure. My father, like generations of my family before him, was a farmer.  Farming was a profession through which my family and prospered and suffered for generations.  At the time we were suffering, and he made a bold move.  He left that noble and familiar profession | Read More »