TRAVELING TO A NEW AMERICA A personal journey to a new dream of America. For the past two years, I’ve been holding talks and readings, both in-person and online; interviewing people in different locations and on the street; posting articles and blogs; and writing books – all with the aim of calling forth a new […]
Born in 1857, Ida Tarbell’s early life was spent in the booming oil fields of western Pennsylvania. When she was four years old, her family was living in a shack in an oil field with twenty-five oil wells. Oil was everywhere. Tarbell later wrote of her experience: “No industry of man in its early days […]