The 2017-2019 Archive
Scott pointed out the rafters on our first visit to the Empower Youth (EY) Ranch. He explained that part of the barn might have been built in the 1930s, as indicated by the spaced-out patterning of the boards across the ceiling beams. It was a common Depression-era practice, he told us. Farmers would construct barn roofs…
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We went down to the creek on our second night here. Hillary was eager to show me her home…
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Poetry is good for a lot of things, but directly intervening in the material conditions of the world is not one of them…
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The EY Ranch, as it has come to be called, is the home of local non-profit, Empower Youth, and soon to be the site of our project, SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing. The previously foreclosed 15-acre ranch was recently gifted to Empower Youth by Community Savings Bank of Bethel in order to aid in the…
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