#Virginia Watts

[diannepearcefuckingwrites]

VIRGINIA WATTS SHOWS EVERYONE HOW IT'S DONE!

Big shoutout to Virginia Watts, one of the OGs at OSP! Her short story collection, ECHOES FROM THE HOCKER HOUSE, just landed on the shortlist for the 2024 da Vinci Eye Award and the Eric Hoffer Book Award. As the editor on this project, I gotta say, these stories are straight-up mesmerizing. They’ll take you on a journey you will not be able to forget, and I wouldn’t be surprised if you…

[readerviews]

"Echoes From the Hocker House" by Virginia Watts

A Strikingly Original Anthology that Displays Watts’ Imaginative Capacity #books #bookreview #reading #readerviews

Echoes From the Hocker House Virginia WattsDevil’s Party Press (2023)ISBN: 978-1957224176 Reviewed by Ephantus M for Reader Views (08/2023) “Echoes From the Hocker House” is an introspective short story collection by Virginia Watts that explores tales about foiled expectations and ineffaceable events in everyday American life. With impressive candor and lucid exposition, the stories follow…

[countess--olenska]

The Countess of Castiglione as “the Queen of Hearts”.

Painted by George Fredrick Watts, based on a photograph by Pierre-Louis Pierson.

[sweetpaintedladie]

It’s almost Exile on Main Street season and I’m genuinely curious - what’s everyone’s favorite song from the album and why? I feel like everyone has different favorites and I’d love to know everyone’s why on each :]

[No poll because too many songs lol]

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100+ Posters & Canvas Artwork. Max print size: 60x40 inches, 100+ Free High Resolution Images Download, PNG files

[rolloroberson]

Sweet Virginia Texas 1972 Ladies and Gentlemen the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World- The Rolling Stones…

“Drop your reds, drop your greens and blues…”

[100-art]

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[paulpingminho]

[goodstuffhappenedtoday]

Millions of U.S. apples were almost left to rot. Now, they'll go to hungry families

NOVEMBER 27, 2023 By Alan Jinich

It's getting late in the harvest season in Berkeley County, West Virginia and Carla Kitchen's team is in the process of hand-picking nearly half a million pounds of apples. In a normal year, Kitchen would sell to processors like Andros that make applesauce, concentrate, and other products. But this year they turned her away. ... Across the country, growers were left without a market. Due to an oversupply carried over from last year's harvest, growers were faced with a game-time economic decision: Should they pay the labor to harvest, crossing their fingers for a buyer to come along, or simply leave the apples to rot?

Bumper crops, export declines and the weather have contributed to the apple crisis

... While many growers in neighboring states like Maryland and Virginia left their apples to drop. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia was able to convince the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to pay for the apples produced by growers in his state, which only makes up 1% of the national market.

A relief program in West Virginia donated its surplus apples to hunger-fighting charities

This apple relief program, covered under Section 32 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1935, purchased $10 million worth of apples from a dozen West Virginia growers. Those apples were then donated to hunger-fighting charities across the country from South Carolina and Michigan all the way out to The Navajo Nation.

Mike Meyer, head of advocacy at The Farmlink Project, says it's the largest food rescue they've ever done and they hope it can serve as a model for their future missions. "There's over 100 billion pounds of produce waste in this country every year; we only need seven billion to drive food insecurity to zero," Meyer says. "We're very happy to have this opportunity. We get to support farmers, we get to fight hunger with an apple. It's one of the most nutritional items we can get into the hands of the food insecure."

At Timber Ridge Fruit Farm in Virginia, owners Cordell and Kim Watt watch a truck from The Farmlink Project load up on their apples before driving out to a food pantry in Bethesda, Md. Despite being headquartered in Virginia, Timber Ridge was able to participate in the apple rescue since they own orchards in West Virginia as well. Cordell is a third-generation grower here and he says they've never had to deal with a surplus this large.

At the So What Else food pantry in Bethesda, Md., apple pallets from Timber Ridge fill the warehouse up to the ceiling. Emanuel Ibanez and other volunteers are picking through the crates, bagging fresh apples into family-sized loads. "I'm just bewildered," Ibanez says. "We have a warehouse full of apples and I can barely walk through it." "People in need got nutritious food out of this program. And that's the most important thing" Executive director Megan Joe says this is the largest shipment of produce they've ever distributed – 10 truckloads over the span of three weeks. The food pantry typically serves 6,000 families, but this shipment has reached a much wider circle. "My coworkers are like, 'Megan, do we really need this many?' And I'm like, yes!" Joe says. "The growing prices in the grocery stores are really tough for a lot of families. And it's honestly gotten worse since COVID."

"It's the first time we've done this type of program, but we believe it can set the stage for the region," Kent Leonhardt, West Virginia's commissioner of agriculture says. "People in need got nutritious food out of this program. And that's the most important thing." Following West Virginia's rescue program, the USDA announced an additional $100 million purchase to relieve the apple surplus in other states around the country. This is the largest government buy of apples and apple products to date. But with the harvest window coming to an end, many growers have already left their apples to drop and rot.

[riddles-n-games]

idk if its just me but flawless by the neighbourhood just reminds me of avery x jameson… or maybe theres any other suggestions? i’d like to know!

Hehehe, you're gonna be here for a while. My playlist for them is literally 10 hours long. Here's my top 20 I'd recommend and I know many people use Taylor Swift songs so I will not be resorting to them as others have plenty of lists posted if you look for that.

Fire n Gold-Bea Miller

Run Away With You-Carly Rae Jepsen

Happily-One Direction

We Are Stars-Virginia to Vegas, Alyssa Reid

Someone To You-BANNERS

Burn-Ellie Goulding

If You Ask Me To-MacKenzie Porter

Chasing Highs (Fast Version)-ALMA

reckless driving-Lizzy McAlpine, Ben Kessler

Let's Take on the World-Emily Watts, Avery Brown

Bets On Us-Cheat Codes, Dolly Parton

There You Are-ZAYN

Just Like Fire-P!nk

About the Boy-Little Mix

Scared of Happy-Fifth Harmony

Fireproof-One Direction

Domino-Jessie J

Hurricane-Bridgit Mendler

Woke Up in Love-Kygo, Gryffin, Calum Scott

Chance-The National Parks

There you go! Hope you like them. Let me know if you have anymore recommendations of your own as I'm always looking to add more.

[juliakristeva]

Share some

of those pdfs omg please…

love how this is formatted like a poem.

these are the pdfs currently in my "reading" tab, all of which i downloaded from annasarchive.

the christian priest today by michael ramsay

dust in the blood: a theology of life with depression by jessica coblentz

concern for the church by karl rahner

medieval women in their communities edited by dianne watt

walking indecently with marcella althaus-reid: doing dissident and liberative theologies from the south by anderson fabian santos meza

theologising with the sacred prostitutes of south india: towards an indecent dalit theology by eve rebecca parker

the unspeakable mother: forbidden discourse in jean rhys and h.d. by deborah kelly kloepfer

virginia woolf, jean rhys, and the aesthetics of trauma by patricia moran.

[diannepearcefuckingwrites]

OLD SCRATCH IS GOING!

Catch up on the news and the folks contributing to this poetry/short form collective, and try out a post from poet and author Virginia (Ginny) Watts!

[beguines]

As was to be expected, the massive layoffs and record unemployment levels after the onset of the Depression dampened most worker militancy and union organizing efforts. Such was not the case, however, in the coal industry. As Dubofsky and Van Tine note, coal miners did not accept "their misery in silence or apathy . . . The years 1930, 1931, and especially 1932 saw mass violent strikes scar the coalfields". These strikes were for the most part led by Communists and independent radicals.

Theodore Draper describes the Communist Party (CP) activity in detail. Its organizational base was the National Miners' Union (NMU), whose September 9–​ 10, 1928, founding convention was attended by 675 delegates. John Watt of Illinois was elected president; William Boyce, a Black miner, was elected vice president; while CP coal miners' leader, Pat Toohey, was named secretary-​treasurer. In 1929 and 1930, there were numerous spontaneous strikes, in which participants sometimes called in the NMU after they were out. In 1931, there were four large strikes in different coal regions. In March, twenty thousand Pennsylvania anthracite miners struck under the leadership of non-Communist oppositionists. In July, twenty thousand West Virginia miners in the Kanawha Valley, led by Frank Keeney, a Lewis opponent supported by the left-​wing Musteites, went out on a prolonged strike. From May to June, four thousand miners in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and northern West Virginia struck under NMU leadership. These strikes spread quickly because the miners were in "such an explosive mood." According to Draper, thousands joined the NMU, many of whom also joined the Communist Party. In the Pittsburgh area, the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company signed contracts with the UMWA to avoid the CP.

The most dramatic 1931 strike took place in Harlan County, Kentucky, where thousands of miners worked in a state of peonage and company-​sponsored terror. When ten thousand Kentucky coal miners struck, the UMWA sent in Philip Murray to organize. The violence became so great that the union abandoned the area. In one gun battle at Ewarts, three deputies and a miner were killed, and thirty-​four miners were indicted for murder. In July, the NMU finally moved in, while the CP's International Labor Defense (ILD) took up the defense of the indicted miners. Draper, hardly sympathetic to the Communists, claims that "the circumstances in Harlan were so adverse that whatever the Communists did there seems somewhat incredible".

Draper also notes the extraordinary commitment of the CP to racial egalitarianism. He describes the white Harlan miners as fundamentalists, highly individualist, and racist. With less than 14% of Kentucky miners being Black (Draper claims only a few percent in Harlan County were African-​American), racial solidarity was hardly the strategic issue that it was in Alabama or West Virginia. Thus, when the issue arose about whether Black miners should eat at the same soup kitchens and tables as white miners, there was quite a bit of resistance from white strikers. "On this point, however, the Communists were adamant. After six or seven hours of discussion, they succeeded in convincing the miners that all of them, irrespective of color, should eat in the same kitchen". "It is fair to say that only the Communists in that period, in the heat of battle, would have taken such a firm stand on this issue". Although the strikers were badly defeated, the Communists did manage to gain worldwide publicity for the Harlan miners' plight, mobilizing leading intellectuals, including Theodore Dreiser and John Dos Passos, to go to Kentucky to conduct hearings. This case helped focus attention on the plight and repression faced by southern workers, especially in the coal mines.

Michael Goldfield, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s

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[southernhispanics]

TORCIDO TUESDAY: Capone from COLONIA WATTS, Bad Boy from VIRGINIA STREET LOCOS, Listo from THE MAGICIANS CLUB and Prieto from TEMPLE STREET in YTS. Be sure to check the hashtag for more photos of this varrio.

[chaoticdesertdweller]

Roanoke, Virginia

Once known as the Barrens, the home of Dr. Francis Sorrel and Letitia Gamble Watts, the property pictured above was sold to Peter Huff in 1900. Situated within the city limits, the land was eyed by developers as a prime location for commercial interests. The Huff family sold the farm in 1981. Construction on Valley View Mall began in 1983, with the mall opening in 1985.

These two photos of the Huff farm were taken in August of 1979 by John Will Creasy.