They know when it’s time to give all of us a break.
That’s good for our psyche, but it probably is not, in the long run, good for our democratic form of government.
We’re going through what is, probably, the most off of all of the recent off-year election cycles. Not that we didn’t need a little bit of a break, having come through one of the most contentious presidential elections many of us have ever witnessed.
And in the end, we learned, once again, about the importance of voting. There were about 155,506,321 votes cast for president in November. When all of those votes were counted, Joe Biden won not only the popular vote 81,283,361 to Donald Trump’s 74,222,960 but also prevailed in the Electoral College, 306 to 232.
The story behind these glorious Alabama grits
Updated Feb 24, 2021;
Posted Feb 24, 2021
Frank McEwen began grinding his McEwen & Sons grits out of his farm supply store in Wilsonville, Ala., in 2002. (Bob Carlton/bcarlton@al.com)
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The two Franks knew each other, but not for the reasons most people might know them.
Frank Stitt, the celebrated chef and co-owner of Highlands Bar and Grill, first got to know Frank McEwen, the founding father of McEwen & Sons grits, because Stitt bought feed for his horses from McEwen.
McEwen also owns Coosa Valley Milling & Hardware, a one-stop farm supply and mercantile store on the main drag in the small Shelby County town of Wilsonville. Stitt’s farm is a few miles up the highway in Harpersville.