"In spite of being hidden away on her family's mountain farm in the Northern Catskills, Shannon Hayes' words rang out around the world when she first published Radical Homemakers, a clarion call to men and women everywhere to make hearth and community the center of an ecologically sustainable future. In the face of fierce criticism, she has become the voice of a new generation of parents, farmers and urban and rural homesteaders committed to a life...

A selection of the wild, the weird, and the wonderful culled from the Wall Street Journal's popular, and long-standing, "A-Hed column." One of the Wall Street Journal's most popular features for more than seventy years, the daily "A-Hed" column, "named for a headline that looked like a letter A," has diverted readers from the more glum news of war, economic woe, natural disasters, and man-made malfeasance. Covering a wide range of lunacy and the unusual...