Editor’s Note: These curious times have caused reverberations in otherwise rational people who contributed their professional lives to this amazing, sometimes aberrant nation. – Vic Author’s Note: Master A’s impressive piece this week caused me to dash off what follows Please thank him for me. -Marlow America’s Road America set out on a narrow way […]

Editor’s Note: Morning! The Farm is awakening from the holiday repast. The clean-up was complete this morning with the ritual of emptying the dishwasher, and the over-large white plates redeposited to their slumber on an upper shelf, accessible to some only with the step ladder. Marlow thought a little deeper than the Editorial section here […]

Editor’s Note: Marlow returns this morning to his exploration of new roots in a new town older that our Independence. As you may have noticed, there are other versions abroad in this great land. Socotra House LLC prefers this one. The Savannah dining tradition is as old as the city, and it is magical. The […]

Editor’s Note: We drift into the 4th of July weekend today. It is a holiday many of us remember. It celebrates the history we used to know. I think of that family, swinging hammers, who helped build the railroad that runs by The Farm in 1858. It is pretty cool to hear the whistle in […]

Editor’s Note: Marlow hits something close to home this morning. It is a topic that has been eating at many of us for a while. There was a minor battle in the Writers Circle that brought it on. Three topics were floated, each of which already had some work done: UAPs, formerly known as “UFOs,” […]

Editor’s Note: The beauty of this Piedmont morning is palpable yet serene. The air embraces a pleasant coolness, betraying summer’s arriving warmth that will sweep over us in the coming days. There are a few white puffs in the depths of brilliant and unambiguous blue above the Farm. The trees that ring the pasture shiver […]

Editor’s Note: Huge week at Refuge Farm. Work parties, trees falling, deck repairs. You know- the usual. Marlow has hovered patiently, perhaps because his trip back to Key West- or, “Key Weird,” has now assumed its place in memory. The Production Board claims to have stories on Wicked Bottom, the waggoner’s rest a mile or […]

Editor’s Note: There is another torrent of interesting events in the morning harvest. With COVID restrictions passing into the memory hole of national life, the streets are coming alive again and travel is possible. There are other singular events reported, citizens acting out in the smaller ones, and larger issues like the cyber-attack on the […]

There is so much going on that it is past amusing, beyond funny and frankly into the amazing. Still, the production schedule at Socotra LLC demands attention. There is a growing neat stack of funny- poignant funny- tales of Marlow’s return to the mystic isle at the end of the Florida Keys. It has been […]