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Wednesday, January 2, 2008 - Philadelphia MS


Moundville Archaeological Site, Moundville Alabama, January 2, 2008

Leaving Tuscaloosa

This Lazy Daze doesn't deal well with temperatures much below 30 degrees. It's just not well enough insulated. The cold air slides down the glass, out under the drapes and out across my bed. It was in the high teens last night - brrrrr.

I'm headed generally westward. Down 69 through Moundville Alabama then west through Eutaw Alabama and on westward toward Vicksburg Mississippi.

First stop - Moundville Alabama

I'm writing from the foot of the large mound at the Moundville Archaeological Site.

Night camp

Wal-Mart parking lot in Philadelphia, Mississippi

On Food and Freedom

Here I've clipped a few paragraphs from the excellent talk Return to Slavery: Will you be eating China's dust for breakfast? by Billie Best, Executive Director, Regional Farm and Food Project given on April 19, 2006 to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Ecologic Club - Troy, New York, On the occasion of Ecologic Club launching a campaign to get more local foods into their campus food system.

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