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Cosmic Americana: Nudie Cohn's

Cosmic Americana: Nudie Cohn’s Visionary Fashion Expressed the American Ethos

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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Cosmic Americana: Nudie Cohn’s Visionary Fashion Expressed the American Ethos From rodeo queens and Rhinestone Cowboys to rock & roll-folk exploding dreamers, Nudie Cohn expressed a certain kind of American ethos. What better thread through the history of the West and the singers and entertainers who epitomized it in […]

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Birds Do It, Bees Do It

Birds Do It, Bees Do It… Regurgitation! (Sometimes, writing is a dish best served warmed-over.)

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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Birds Do It, Bees Do It… Regurgitation! (Sometimes, writing is a dish best served warmed-over.) Birds do it, bees do it, now I’m doing it. Regurgitation. It’s what you do when the writing well runs dry. By John G. Stamos Subscribers to this publication, as well as its regular

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My Garden Is Fork-ready!

My Garden Is Fork-ready!

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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy My Garden Is Fork-ready! “My Garden Is Fork-ready!” Damn straight. It’s “Arrivederci” to summer and a flower garden’s halcyon days. Relax. It might be “So long,” but it definitely ain’t “Goodbye.” By John G. Stamos I’m writing all this down at the tail end of August, which is a

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Gardening As a Salve in 1973

Gardening As a Salve in 1973

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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Gardening As a Salve in 1973 It was a difficult year in New Jersey, but the tomatoes and Brother Doug helped. By Russ Smith Fifty-two years ago I became an apprentice gardener, although perhaps lackey is more accurate. It was an odd job in a year of odd events.

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Low Murmurs

Low Murmurs

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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Low Murmurs My newest original poem, “Low Murmurs,” published for the first time, here in The Renaissance Garden Guy.  It’s a shorty. By John G. Stamos Low Murmurs John G. Stamos They whisper, sharing secrets dear, Or simply nod, or bow, And, as one, plied with earthen cheer, Honor

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