I couldn’t find a cover picture for this book so a screenshot of the title page will have to do. There were no book promos or customer reviews ether. It is one of the books in the American Folkways Series which has not received much attention over the years with most of the books in the series becoming unread. This one provides some good historical information about Kentucky but it is dated.
We have been dodging afternoon rains since getting wet but they have not returned here. The 10 day forecast has now been revised and has no prediction of rain only cloudy and partly cloudy. High temperatures in the mid to low 80s with a couple days in the high 70s the lows to be in the lower 50s. I think most of summer is over.
The park started to fill up this weekend with bow hunters. The elk bow season opens today in this area so the park will be full most of the time during September. The hunters have been a well mannered group in past years. Most of them have side by side UTVs which they do not operate like ATV riders and loud music is not part of the hunting experience. I hope that hold true this year as well.
I finished converting my third bicycle tour to a WordPress page yesterday. Have started on the fourth one which I think will be easier and then will be faced with the fifth and sixth that are going to take a long time. I was able to do that third conversion without help from ChatGPT which means I have learned something. To learn even more I have downloaded a book that will help me learn JavaScript. Then maybe I’ll understand the coding that I’m using for the maps that I’m creating in Mapbox. HA
Here’s what I expect: the failure of most things organized at the giant scale: global corporations, national chain retail, distant supply-lines, and consequently the laborious, painful reconstruction of far more localized economies. I expect radical simplification of everyday life, including less high-tech, less intrusive government, irregular electric service, falling oil production, and a notable drop in population levels.
I expect a surprising shift in social relations, including a return to divisions of labor based on gender; de-pornified courtship manners and a revival of trad mating behavior, with priorities on motherhood and child-rearing in a crisis of infertility; a revival of religious communion (already underway in America’s youngest generation); a necessary return to the ethic of personal responsibility as government support withers; and a return to swift justice, including execution for significant crimes. I expect some nations to fracture into smaller regional and ethnic units, certainly Canada, possibly even the United States. — Back To School by James Howard Kunstler