To cross the suburban death moat (aka Good Luck (sucker) Road) into Greenbelt Park, I walked far enough along the road that the drivers and I could see each other and take enough precautions to avoid (for them) excessive deceleration or unsightly dents on their hoods or (for me) severe injury/death. In less than a…… Continue reading Overstory/understory // Downcuts
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Notes from the factory floor
My own name for central Illinois is “the factory floor of U.S. industrial agriculture.” Before moving here in 2018, I’d only ever flown over or driven through this region and never gave much thought to what people had to do to the land before all this food would just spring forth. The story I probably…… Continue reading Notes from the factory floor