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Michael Wright

Michael Wright is a musician, artist, and teacher currently living in Barboursville, VA.

11th Annual Mesquite Milling, Pancake Brunch, & Fiesta – A Neighborhood Event

December 28, 2013 by Michael Wright

Nov 26, 13 Pedaling quietly down tree lined streets in the crisp autumn morning, we round the corner into Dunbar/Spring Community Park and meet the sounds of gasoline engines driving mills grinding mesquite pods. It is the 11th Annual Mesquite Milling, Pancake Brunch, & Fiesta at the Dunbar Spring Community Garden, Orchard and Mini Nature park in…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Farming, Festival, Food, Gardens Tagged With: desert, desert agriculture, desert farming, farming, mesquite, Michael Wright, neighborhood, tucson, urban sustainability

Building Compost Piles at River Road Gardens

October 18, 2013 by Michael Wright

Urban farmers Jon McNamara and Emily Mabry operate River Road Gardens, a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project on the campus of the Tucson Waldorf School. The multiple beds of Jon and Emily’s farm lie on the south side of the school property, alongside a busy county road that is the major thoroughfare on the north…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Farming, Sustainability

Day is Done

January 17, 2013 by Michael Wright

We appreciate the response to the cd Day Is Done. The idea arose three and a half years ago with the birth of our first grandchild and finally got off the ground with the birth of our second—lullabies.   Two of the songs, “The Riddle Song” and “All the Pretty Little Horses”, were recorded in…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Music, Small Business

Rosa’s Quilts

January 1, 2012 by Michael Wright

Rosa's Quilt - Fans

Rosa Smiley was born in 1901 in southern Kentucky. Her father was a farmer and a banjo player. She learned the skills of cooking, sewing, planting, harvesting, and preserving food at an early age, and spent most of her life close to the red clay, rocky land along the backwaters of the Cumberland River.  …READ MORE >

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Filed Under: History, Textiles

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Garden of Radio Delights

Roll back the tape: 1960, Cincinnati, Ohio, 3 am. My upstairs bedroom.  Headphones on, I’m squinting in the dark at the lighted dial of my Hallicrafter S-38e short wave radio, with a Q-multiplier attached that I built from a Heathkit. The S-38e was produced from 1957 to 1961, making it the end of the Hallicrafters S-38 line of shortwave…READ MORE >

Music in the Wood: Harmonic Forms by Paul Fairchild

I climbed down out of the Crow’s Nest and spent a recent Saturday afternoon worrying a pile of knotty red oak rounds with a maul and wedge, whittling them down to size for the wood stove. As I split them open, I enjoyed seeing the beautiful swirling grains in the wood, exposed to the sunlight…READ MORE >

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