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RECEIVED Thu., Sept. 17, 2015
Dear Editor,
Thousands of Austin's residents have long thought that Mexicans smuggling pot over the border was natural and good, since growing hemp was disallowed for growing by U.S. farmers in 1937. To this day our dollar bills are 60% hemp, and 40% cotton. When the hippies of “The People's Republic of Austin” introduced the rednecks to smoking rope, it shifted the paradigm away from whiskey, red meat, and cars, toward a more gentle future. In 1973, pot no longer a felony, topless women, and “No war! No war!”
Pat Littledog wrote a big book about Austin and pot, that I'm just dying to read for years, but no publisher will touch it. Her book about Jewel Babb at Indian Hot Springs, Texas, Border Healing Woman, is truly a classic of Texas literature.
I was glad to read in The Austin Chronicle that Chuck Taylor's Slough Press will reprint Pat's Afoot in a Field of Men. I've bought many copies of Pat's works, but invariably passed them on. Some writers are like that.
Thousands of Austin's residents have long thought that Mexicans smuggling pot over the border was natural and good, since growing hemp was disallowed for growing by U.S. farmers in 1937. To this day our dollar bills are 60% hemp, and 40% cotton. When the hippies of “The People's Republic of Austin” introduced the rednecks to smoking rope, it shifted the paradigm away from whiskey, red meat, and cars, toward a more gentle future. In 1973, pot no longer a felony, topless women, and “No war! No war!”
Pat Littledog wrote a big book about Austin and pot, that I'm just dying to read for years, but no publisher will touch it. Her book about Jewel Babb at Indian Hot Springs, Texas, Border Healing Woman, is truly a classic of Texas literature.
I was glad to read in The Austin Chronicle that Chuck Taylor's Slough Press will reprint Pat's Afoot in a Field of Men. I've bought many copies of Pat's works, but invariably passed them on. Some writers are like that.
Bob Schroeder