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Articles by Dennis E. PowellPage 6 of 8. The View from Mudsock Heights: A Sad Anniversary Sparks a Brief History of the Last 40 Years or SoBy Dennis E. Powell | May 28, 2009 at 15:18:45My father died 42 years ago last week. The anniversary gave rise to various emotions — a little sadness, of course, though we’ve had time to get over it — but chiefly I thought about how much he has missed. The View from Mudsock Heights: Memorial Day Ought to be About More than Sales and Cookouts, and for Some, It IsBy Dennis E. Powell | May 22, 2009 at 9:19:57Time was, Memorial Day was May 30, and it meant more than sales, cookouts, and “the unofficial beginning of summer.” To some, the old meaning remains. The View from Mudsock Heights: Remembering When One Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Another, Serious EpidemicBy Dennis E. Powell | May 13, 2009 at 23:39:8Some of us are old enough to remember it well. I barely remember it, but it was from a dangerous time anyway. The View from Mudsock Heights: The Annual Plant Infestation Begins and the Wild-Eyed Hordes DescendBy Dennis E. Powell | Apr 29, 2009 at 22:24:5Just as soon as there’s even a hint that the last freeze has passed, out they come. There are swarms of them. They burrow into the ground. They descend upon plants, especially the biggest and healthiest specimens, until soon only the spindly, weak ones remain. The View from Mudsock Heights: With the Thaw, Unexpected Visitors Venture into the CountrysideBy Dennis E. Powell | Apr 23, 2009 at 23:29:28Out here in the woods, people seldom stop by unannounced. Every so often a logger will knock on the door to ask if it would be okay if he were to cut down my cherry, maple, and walnut trees. It wouldn’t. And sometimes there’s a surprise CARE package, so the mailman or the UPS guy will knock. If I’m not here, he’ll put the package on the back porch, where it’s safe from the elements. But beyond that, unexpected company is rare. The View from Mudsock Heights: A New Bug Going Around Has Me Pinin’ for an EvergreenBy Dennis E. Powell | Apr 15, 2009 at 22:47:52There is a very unpleasant little bug going around. It’s like the flu or the bubonic plague or something. It causes fever, makes breathing a chore, and makes one abnormally stupid. And I’ve got it. Which means that this would be the perfect time to run the “evergreen” column in this space. What is an evergreen column? Well … The View from Mudsock Heights: A New Bug Going Around Has Me Pinin’ for an EvergreenBy Dennis E. Powell | Apr 15, 2009 at 22:47:52There is a very unpleasant little bug going around. It’s like the flu or the bubonic plague or something. It causes fever, makes breathing a chore, and makes one abnormally stupid. And I’ve got it. Which means that this would be the perfect time to run the “evergreen” column in this space. What is an evergreen column? Well … The View from Mudsock Heights: A Happy Computer Reverie is Interrupted by a Low-Tech MalfunctionBy Dennis E. Powell | Apr 10, 2009 at 16:39:47Yeow! Why is it that hot coffee defies gravity and manages to escape the spout of the coffee pot and — sometimes actually flowing uphill — find its way onto the hand holding the cup, or the tablecloth, or the early morning bare feet? The View from Mudsock Heights: They Might Be Slithery and Scaly and Cold, but They Really are Our FriendsBy Dennis E. Powell | Apr 2, 2009 at 22:42:30It would be a lot easier to get things done around here if there were more snakes. No, I’m not kidding. The View from Mudsock Heights: The Story of a Very Big Ditch Passed — the Story, Not the Ditch — Through HereBy Dennis E. Powell | Mar 25, 2009 at 21:3:52One of the first things that happened after I moved here into the woods four years ago was a visit by a friend from back east. Gerard Koeppel is a noted historian and writer who has specialized in the history of the infrastructure of New York. That is not a subject which immediately quickens the heart, but a book he wrote that was published in 2000, Water for Gotham, actually made the history of the city’s water-supply system exciting. |
The Danger of PeacemakerBy Timothy R. ButlerHere is a story. The leaders of a church have a personal agenda against someone and want to quiet him, exact revenge or what have you. They not only come at him within their church, they continue by following him outside of that church to any other church he seeks refuge at and any place he works, making a wreck of his life in the process. That is the sort of thing that only happened in the past, in dusty tales of witch-hunts in Salem or the Inquisition in Spain, right? Wrong: it is happening today, perhaps at a seemingly normal church near you. |
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