In his 1956 autobiography, “The Year of My Rebirth,” Jesse Stuart makes brief mention of the murder of “Nick” Nickapopolis, a pack peddler who worked W-Hollow on a monthly basis. Little is known of “Nick”—the people of W-Hollow did not even know his first [...]
Twenty-three years ago, as many of us remember, on March 23, 2003, Private First Class Jessica Lynch was crossing the Iraqi desert with the 507th Maintenance Company when the convoy she was travelling in was ambushed. Eleven soldiers in her unit died or were [...]
Introductory Note: Wendell Berry died on August 31, 2026. To honor his life, the JSF offers our readers the following article which originally appeared in the June 2011 issue of The Progressive. It was reprinted with permission in the Spring 2012 (Vol. 28, No. [...]
