J. Drew Lanham – Pathfinding Through the Improbable
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Babolynk Bird
Bob bobolinks are extraordinary birds. They migrate through the southeast, just as the rice crop that enslaved would have worked in these marshes to plant. The birds would descend on these crops. And so i don't have to go very far to think about birds being connected to bondage, and then conservation being connected to the constitution in these ways. It's a sound of spring, but now it's a bird that's declining for several reasons.
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