Nowtopi@ 5….R@iny Mout@in, 50 Ess@yzzz.

December 1, 2009 lagiggl3z

The essay “The way to Rainy Mountain” by Scott Momaday, in the book 50 essays from Samuel Cohen is about a plain in Oklahoma. The Kiowas, which was her ancestors; they named the place Rainy Mountain. The Kiowas named it that because the hardest weather I the world was there. Scott turned to Rainey Mountain in July because his mother heard died in the spring and he wanted to visit her grave. His grandmother’s name was Aho, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America. Scott said that his grandmother lived a long life that the shadow of Rainy Mountain an immense landscape of the continental interior laid like a memory in her blood.

Chapter five in the book Nowtopia by Chris Carlsson is about how gardening produces good food and it benefits outside the complex of exchange. Chris says that it is an area of creativity and a symbolic activity. It is not easy to harvest food it takes a lot of work. Gardens are patches of land containing many purposes and possibilities, and have become battlegrounds for opposing social dynamics. Many agricultural skills help urban gardening. Peirce tells “I organized SLUG [the San Francisco League of Urban Gardening] and there were a lot of people involved” (86). Beginning SLUG he wanted to do economic, social and environmental justice. Urban gardening programs are instruments of urban gentrification. Gardening is import in history and in modern life.