by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Oct 5, 2020 | Cover Story
October 2020 Digging in the Dirt The peanut business in Virginia is all it’s cracked up to be, and more Chris Parker is checking to see if there is money underground. He leans over a small plant and brushes aside its lush, feather-like leaves. Reaching under it,...
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Sep 1, 2020 | Cover Story
September 2020 Stable of Hopes and Dreams At a Maryland therapeutic riding center, breakthroughs come one gait at a time What really lifts Kimberly Hopkins’ spirits is when she thinks about a young woman who spoke her first words astride a well-mannered quarter...
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Aug 3, 2020 | Co-op People
August 2020 Relive the Bolivia mission by visiting...
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Aug 3, 2020 | Cover Story
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by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Jul 1, 2020 | Commonwealth Kitchen
Get ‘Fired Up’ This Summer Though the pandemic pushed the 2020 Lineworker’s Rodeo Gaff-n-Grill to 2021, we’re still eager to share tips from our co-op grillers. July 2020 Click here to submit your recipe for Cooperative Kitchen SEND US YOUR RECIPES! Please email your...
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Jul 1, 2020 | Training Tracks
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by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Jun 2, 2020 | Cover 3
June 2020 The Tuskegee Airman Baugh fought two fronts: the Nazis and segregation Fame came late in life to Howard L. Baugh Sr. It took half-a-century after World War II ended before Baugh and his fellow fighter pilots in the Tuskegee Airmen became well-known, thanks...
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Jun 1, 2020 | Cover Story
June 2020 Youth played a key, unsung role, memorial historian explains They weren’t old enough to go into battle, much less get a driver’s license or register to vote. But 75 years after World War II ended, the young members of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts across the...
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Apr 29, 2020 | Cover Story
May 2020 Every Barn Could Use a Quilt Eye-catching painted patterns brighten outbuildings and benefit bookworms. There is Double Aster, Star of the Show and Carpenter’s Wheel. Mary’s Flower, Autumn Cross and Appalachian Bull. Anvil, Laced Star and Crowned Mule. And, of...
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Apr 29, 2020 | Co-op People
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by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Feb 3, 2020 | Training Tracks
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by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Jan 31, 2020 | Cover Story
February 2020 On the Outside, Looking In Farmville school was a civil rights wellspring Rita Odom was screaming. But she didn’t want anyone to hear. At the house of a stranger 150 miles from home, tears welled in the 12-year-old’s eyes as she cried under her breath:...
