https://straighttalksupportgroup.org/2016/08/26/william-elmore-on-what-straight-talk-support-group-means-to-him/

http://yesweekly.com/mobile/articles/articleView/id:21727

The National Folk Festival is worth planning ahead for, penciling some dates on the calendarand coming up with a strategy for how to get to all the shows you’re going to want to see. The free three-day festival is having a three-year residency in Greensboro, and the 2016 festival, which takes place Sept. 9 – 11, marks year two of the run.

http://worldmusiccentral.org/2016/08/19/interview-with-zydeco-accordion-virtuoso-jeffery-broussard/

Jeffery Broussard and The Creole Cowboys are set to perform at the National Folk Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina. Concerts dates include Friday, September 9 at 6:00 pm at Wrangler Stage; Saturday, September 10 at 2:45 pm at Dance Pavilion; Saturday, September 10 at 9:30 pm at Wrangler Stage; Sunday, September 11 at 12:00 pm at Dance Pavilion; and The Big Squeeze: Accordion Traditions on Sunday, September 11 at 3:15 pm at Lawn Stage.

http://www.dailyyonder.com/review-another-take-on-hillbilly-elegy/2016/08/16/14807/

By my esteemed friend Bill Turner

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/pork/

Hundreds of hog confinements have been constructed across Illinois in recent years, using a factory-like system to grow millions of pigs and put inexpensive bacon on your plate. But a Tribune investigation finds all that cheap meat is coming at great cost to rural communities.