You Can Take the Girl Out of the Dirt

The first dispatch from A Little Local News, a new column by Amy Barnes

Hi. Today we welcome new columnist, Amy Barnes. I’m lucky to have her for a while. You’ll be hearing from Amy monthly. Regular readers will have noticed an uptick in new work published here, outside the confines of the print issues. It’s a threat to my posture of extreme less-is-more-ness, but I’m finding a pace to keep things tight.

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