April 5, 2020
Tales Well Told
From the archives of The Friday Read
We offer these five articles in hopes they distract and inspire. Take your time -- savor these tales. Meanwhile, we'll return to our regular programming tomorrow. Please take steps to protect yourself and others. We'll get through this together.
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** The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food (2013) ([link removed])
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By MICHAEL MOSS, The New York Times (Metered Paywall - 1 to 2 articles a month)
On the evening of April 8, 1999, a long line of Town Cars and taxis pulled up to the Minneapolis headquarters of Pillsbury and discharged 11 men who controlled America’s largest food companies. Nestlé was in attendance, as were Kraft and Nabisco, General Mills and Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola and Mars. Rivals any other day, the C.E.O.’s and company presidents had come together for a rare, private meeting. On the agenda was one item: the emerging obesity epidemic and how to deal with it.
** Gone but not forgotten
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** Robert E. Simon Jr., Who Created Reston, Dies at 101 (2015) ([link removed])
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By ROBERT D. MCFADDEN, The New York Times (Metered Paywall - 1 to 2 articles a month)
Robert E. Simon Jr., a New York real estate developer who founded Reston, Va., in the early 1960s as America’s first planned alternative to the postwar suburban sprawl of commuter towns with cookie-cutter houses on look-alike streets, died on Monday at his home in Reston. He was 101....At a time when millions were fleeing crowded cities for what some sociologists called a colorless life in suburbia, Mr. Simon envisioned a Northern Virginia community that blended the serenity of an Italian hill town, the urban attractions of San Francisco’s Embarcadero and the social equality of a utopia in Finland.
** Franklin County moonshine legend Amos Law dies at 83 (2019) ([link removed])
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By ALISON GRAHAM, The Roanoke Times (Metered Paywall - 18 articles a month)
Officers kicked down the door of his Rocky Mount home. They dragged him outside, stuffed him into a police car and drove him to jail. Over and over again. Henry Lee Law remembers talking to his dad, Amos, with heavy metal bars between them. ...Jail time was an unfortunate downside to his father’s illegal moonshine business. “It’s a dangerous job,” Henry Law said, “but if you can get by with it, you get a big roll of money that you can’t make out here on regular jobs. And when you got away with it, that was a rush. That was a good feeling.”
** TRUE CRIME
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** Love, passion and arson in rural Virginia (2014) ([link removed])
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By MONICA HESSE, The Washington Post (Metered Paywall - 3 articles a month)
The corn was harvested, and the field was a dirty sort of brown. Deborah Clark would think about that later, how at a different time of year she wouldn’t have seen anything until it was too late. A friend had come over to her house in Parksley, Va., once the kids from Clark’s living-room day care went home. He left about 10:30 that Monday evening, but a few minutes later knocked on her door again. “Hey,” he told her. “That house across the field is on fire.”
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** Murder on the Appalachian Trail (2015) ([link removed])
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By EARL SWIFT, Outside Magazine
It is a quiet, restorative place, this clearing high on a Pennsylvania ridge. Ferns and wildflowers carpet its floor. Sassafras and tulip trees, tall oak and hickory stand tight at its sides, their leaves hissing in breezes that sweep from the valley below. Cloistered from civilization by a steep 900-foot climb over loose and jutting rock, the glade goes unseen by most everyone but a straggle of hikers on the Appalachian Trail, the 2,180-mile footpath carved into the roofs of 14 eastern states.
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