By Heather Mundt - Waiting in the verdant pastures of Mahaffey Farms, we heard the eager rumblings of hungry cattle, grunting and mooing in anticipation of a new patch of grass. “We use a call that all southern cattlemen use,” says farmer Evan McCommon, who manages his family’s Mahaffey Farms in Princeton, La., near North Louisiana’s Shreveport-Bossier (BOWS-yer) City … [Read more...]
Transformative Art – An Interview with Stephan Wanger
By Jennifer Fontaine - The year was 1990, and I was a junior in high school. More than 50 percent of the students at my school participated in some sort of arts program from drama, speech, and debate to music and visual arts. So when we learned the School Board had voted to cut art-education funding that year by more than 25 percent, we organized a school-wide walkout. In the … [Read more...]