Many thanks for Gabe Brown’s thoughts on agricultural subsidies. My dad used to say, “This is the law, and the law shall run till the sun and the earth stand still. He that eats another man’s bread shall do another man’s will.”
We’ve always avoided federal monies because we were taught that taking something we hadn’t earned (unless gifted) was theft, even if another did the taking.
It’s encouraging to know someone values his independence in the face of the almighty dollar.
Jimmie Wells
Claunch NM
Remembering Art Modderman, 1938-2023
Yesterday, Dorothy and I attended the memorial sharing for Art Modderman. Art was an every-year-attender at Acres U.S.A. conferences. He could always be seen meeting in the halls with anyone gathered round. He’d seek out speakers, yet speakers and attendees would also seek him out. He was always in a crowd, and most always was the crowd seeking him.
Ask him a question and he would immediately pull out his wallet. That was his stick plate or dowsing instrument, for those not radionically savvy.
Art lived with us following his vacation in Lexington, Kentucky. He had been living by himself, so we asked him to join us. That summer he did most of my gardening. One day, coming home from work, I walked down to the garden where he was sitting. “What are you doing, Art?” I asked. “Just sittin’, Ron.” “Why?” “I noticed a white moth around the cabbages, and I think they come around because of a mineral deficiency. I think it’s boron, so I sprayed some 20-mule train borax on them. We’ll see in a day or two.” Next day, no white moths!
Art will be missed.Ron Ward
Kentucky
