Still trying to unravel the mystery of why people would choose, of their own free will, to move to Ypsilanti, I reached out to new residents Isaac and Emily Wingfield, and demanded that they submit to a formal Ypsilanti Immigration Interview. Here are the results. MARK: Isaac, I understand that you just recently took a […]
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Ypsilanti Immigration Interview: Emily and Isaac Wingfield
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Allegany County, Ansel Adam, Appalachian State, AS220, Asheville, authenticity, bike friendly, community theater, dark rooms, Emily Wingfield, football, goats, Houghton, Isaac Wingfield, John Ritzenthaler Company, Lewis Hine, livestock, native prairie, New Urban Arts, New York, North Carolina, photography, pop-up farming, poverty. RFK, Providence, Rhode Island, RISD, Robert Kennedy, Sara Meyer, sense of place, Seth Gruenwald, Starbucks, textiles, University of Michigan Residential College, urban agriculture, urban farming, walkability, Water Street, Ypsi immigration interview 4 Comments
The subject of poverty finally makes its way into the presidential campaign
As I’ve mentioned before, I was born in Lexington, Kentucky, the day before Robert Kennedy arrived there to begin his tour of Appalachia. I don’t know that it explains why, over the course of my life, I’ve been so drawn to Kennedy, but it’s an odd coincidence, I think, and I find it hard to […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Appalachia, assassination, Baptists, Bruce D. Meyer, budget cuts, Bush tax cuts, Christian, Christianity, Conference of Catholic Bishops, entitlements, faith based initiative, homelessness, hunger, hunger in America, James X. Sullivan, Jesus, John Edwards, Kairos Prison Ministry International, Kentucky, Lexington, Martin Luther King, Matthew Yglesias, MLK, National Association of Evangelicals, Obama, poverty, Presidential politics, RFK, Robert Kennedy, Romney, social safety net, tax the rich, The Circle of Protection, wealth inequality, welfare 14 Comments