Paddling: Paint Creek

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Location: Paint Creek, north of Hot Springs, NC

We found the “ducky slam” we intended to paddle over congested with logs, so we headed downstream.

 

Paddling: Nolichucky

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We continued our paddling venture down to Erwin, TN, a town historically known for hanging an elephant. What a gorgeous river, though.

Paddling: Big South Fork & Rockcastle

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Wade, Ray, and Kevin met me in Knoxville, TN, and we caravanned up to Kentucky for some paddling. We’re all open-boaters, meaning we paddle canoes through whitewater rather than kayaks.

We began our weekend with the magnificent Big South Fork:Then we headed up to Rockcastle, which had a bit of a steep hike down to the put-in but was a beautiful paddle:

Florida Earthskills Gathering

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Location: Hawthorne, FL

I worked-traded at the Florida Earthskills Gathering. I learned how to reverently slaughter a chicken, learned about pheromones, and how to take care of a gathering’s worth of humanure.

WUFT: Terry Jones to leave Gainesville

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Shout-out to the First Amendment! An article I wrote for WUFT.

http://www.wuft.org/news/2013/03/28/pastor-terry-jones-to-leave-gainesville/

Cover of the Fine Print!

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Last semester, I started researching surveillance in Gainesville with a few other students for an applied fact finding class. Charlene Hewitt and I decided to keep digging, and our combined efforts were published in the cover story for the latest issue of the Fine Print.

Issues are available on the University of Florida campus, or various locations around town.

http://thefineprintmag.org/watching-the-watchmen-gainesville-surveillance/