by Willie Walkingstick
Sixty years is not so long ago. It is within the lifetime of people still alive today. But even if it were one hundred years or 200 years, it is not too long ago that we should try to bury its truths in the grave of ancient history.
This country was founded on racism [...]
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City Councilor, Willie Walkingstick believes the delay in the LaFontaine murder investigation is deliberate, and at a press conference today, he leveled charges against Sheriff Tony Sweet and Vernon Van Bibber, one of Germaine’s leading citizens.
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The abandonment of sound farming practices for the chemical quick fix has left much of our once-productive land barren and poisoned, has caused cancers and other illnesses, and has left us with poor quality food.
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by Howard Applegate
ith temperatures over the 100 degree mark in Central Oregon, a few local farmers are reporting sheep deaths caused by the heat. Teacher and sheep farmer, Ed Plum, found four of his young sheep dead in the field. One was his daughter Chrissy’s 4H lamb she had planned to show in the fair [...]
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Our first poll is for potential writers. From the beginning, the purpose of The Germaine Truth has been to foster a community of writers around our fictional town to have fun, hone our craft, and discuss important environmental and social issues between rural and urban people. We have not been very successful, yet, but we aren’t giving up.
Would you consider joining a web community like this if we made the right changes? Please help us out by taking the poll to the right, and leaving more detailed comments below.
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I had to modify the javascript a bit to get it to float left and wrap the text. Until I figure out how to do it, you can’t float the photo to the right.
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It has been nearly a year now since we have published any new material. I have been completely immersed in the task of finishing my new trilogy of novels. I am well into the second at this juncture, and my first is being polished up. So, that is going to be my priority for some time.
Patricia is also working on a new novel. The good news for The Germaine Truth fans is that her novel is A Stranger in Town. The novel will be somewhat changed from the chapters we have posted so far on the website, and Patty is unsure of its ultimate destination — website or book publisher.
I will try to be more attentive to keeping everyone up to date, and as soon as possible I want to do some work on The Diary of Little Germaine and begin Dr. Rosa’s story. Check back now and then. We aren’t giving up on this project.
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Our sitewide feed doesn’t seem to be working correctly, so I have been trying to troubleshoot it for the last few weeks. We hope to begin posting again soon on a regular basis.
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After a few weeks down, we have finally fixed a series of website problems. So, The Germaine Truth is back up.
We are still hard at work on my novel Sweetland, and so haven’t added any new material some time now. We hope to get back to it soon.
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I should have written this some time ago, and have been negligent. Patty and I are hard at work on other writing projects –we are both working on novels– and the little energy we have had for The Germaine Truth has gone into planning. We know that we risk losing readers, but we have decided that we really need to get our other projects finished and out of the way before diving back into TGT.
We’re not sure if we truly have any readers, because we never hear from you. But if you are out ther, have a good remainder of the summer, and we’ll see you in October.
Duane Poncy
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