Author May Cobb mines her East Texas roots for ‘The Hunting Wives’
She discusses writing about women, upending stereotypes and her love of ‘Heathers.’
Author May Cobb was born in Dallas, grew up in Longview and now lives in Austin. Her new novel, The Hunting Wives, is her second thriller, after her 2018 debut, Big Woods. (Steve Noreyko)
Dallas-born writer May Cobb upends some Texas stereotypes in her summer thriller
The Hunting Wives, which comes out May 18. Set in a fictional East Texas town, the novel follows a woman who leaves a high-powered job in Chicago looking for a simpler life back where she grew up. What she finds instead is a clique of grown-up, gun-toting Mean Girls and murder. We talked to Cobb who lives in Austin now about growing up in Longview, writing women’s lives and her love of the film
Last year, downtown Speedway took a hit after fans couldn’t attend the pandemic-delayed Indianapolis 500. Author: Lauren Kostiuk Updated: 12:20 AM EDT May 1, 2021
SPEEDWAY, Ind. The Indy 500 is just around the corner as Speedway gears up to welcome race fans back to Main Street.
“Main Street is probably the coolest place in Indianapolis, especially during the month of May,” said Robert Mills.
Last year, downtown Speedway took a hit after fans couldn’t attend and the race was pushed back to August.
“Downtown was pretty dead last year, so it is good to see people back out on the streets, walking around and enjoying the community again,” Mills said.
A Minneapolis policeman looks down Plymouth Ave in Minneapolis on July 21, 1967, hours before hundreds of National Guard troops arrive to patrol Black communities as part of a larger movement against Black rebellions in the 60s [Robert Walsh/AP Photo]
Minnesota, like every other US state, begins with a lie. Explore Minnesota tourism ads present the state as a natural paradise, as if the US military-occupied land of Mni Sota Makoce is God-country, some blessing bestowed upon God’s own settler-colony.
Popular culture presents a narrative about the state as pure and as white as the opening scene of Fargo. The upper Midwest is full of hearty, plaid and parka-wearers and white homemaking mom’s you betcha and don’tcha know-ing over a stack of unfinished pancakes as the ruddy-cheeked children grab their hockey sticks and run out to the frozen-over pond.
April 19, 2021
Perhaps more than ever in recent history, at-home food preservation has been on the forefront of people’s minds.
By Adriana Janovich, Washington State Magazine
Home canning had already been making a comeback. Then the pandemic hit.
Enjoying a jar of summer sun-ripened peaches in the middle of a freezing February is reason enough to can for Anna Kestell, who has been canning all of her adult life.
“I have to have my peaches,” she said. “They are my most favorite thing. That’s my go-to dessert: my own canned peaches with cream. That’s my comfort food.”
Also comforting: giving her home-canned garden-grown vegetables, jams, and jellies to friends as gifts. Kestell always includes the recipe and processing instructions. In her role as the food preservation and safety outreach educator at Washington State University Extension for Spokane County, she’s been teaching people to can and answering their home-canning and other food preservation questions for
Climate change in Minnesota is already here
Die-off at Big Woods State Park, washed-out roads and bridges tell the story of a warmer, wetter state. 5:30 am, Apr. 14, 2021 ×
Trees in Nerstrand Big Woods State Park stand dying. Department of Natural Resources, using climate data determined 12 acres of trees in the park were likely dying due to climate change. (John Molseed / jmolseed@postbulletin.com)
NERSTRAND – The tree canopy at Big Woods State Park was starting to thin.
It was 2018. Aerial photos of the park confirmed to the naturalists there that red oak, white oak, burr oak and basswood trees covering about 12% of the forested land in the park were dying.