Peter the Pie Guy

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The abolitionist history of Thanksgiving and pumpkin pie — and why the South resisted both For decades, Thanksgiving was cause for a fight. And the pumpkin was a symbol of the Northern anti-slavery movement.

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Meet Mark Gibbons, Montana's new Poet Laureate Mark Gibbons grew up in a poetic household, one where poems were the harsh narratives of a working class family. He describes his parents as painfully honest … to a

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Pie for Education. Well done, Tony Dokoupil.

CBS News Uses Pie Slices To Illustrate America's Wealth Inequality To Shoppers, Blows Their Minds - Digg We were expecting wealth disparity, but not to this extent.

My old market neighbors. Never knew anybody who worked harder than Beth & David (& every vendor at the Clark Fork Market for that matter). The hours these good folks put in just to bring the public a slice of comfort & we as a society support politicians & their cabal of lobbyists who do nothing but undermine working-class families like Beth, David, & Beatrice. When are we going to wake up & recognize our politics starve, deny, & kill our fellow human beings by taking food & vital health resources away from the very people who need it most?

"I feel like my family, we’re the kind of family that conservative politicians act like they want to help. We’re small business owners, employee people, we’re raising our kid. We can’t continue to be small business owners who own our business and employ our employees if we don’t get some help for health insurance. Now that we have a kid, it’s not the same as when I was 20 and I just wouldn’t have insurance. She needs insurance.” - Beth Gherlein

Congress lets funding expire for program that insures 45K Montana kids When Beth Gherlein’s daughter Beatrice was about a year old, she woke in the middle of the night screaming in pain with a fever of 105 degrees and hives.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/10/04/553982295/at-a-time-we-all-need-comfort-pie-bars-serve-it-by-the-slice

At A Time We All Need Comfort, Pie Bars Serve It By The Slice

Calling all Pie Art fans in the Baltimore Area! Be sure to check out my main man dot_org's (aka Max) "Stranger Math" exhibit at the The Gallery at Liv2eat in Federal Hill tomorrow nite where you'll get to meet the artist & I promise you will not be disappointed by his work. dot_org has been featured in "Ç" & you can also follow all his incredible work on instagram at dot_org. Check him out, on The Gram & in person tomorrow nite. Pie out.

"I'm sorry I have no idea what you just said because my mouth was having an or**sm." - My roommate Morgan having some Peach Pie for breakfast.

The highest of compliments AKA The Pie Guy strikes again!

To all of my dear Missoulians, if you love poetry like me and would like to work with one Missoula's finest poets, please consider signing up:

Shadowboxing: Reading and Writing Poetry (with Mark Gibbons)

Mondays, 9:00 am – 10:30 am, Todd Building, UM

SHADOWBOXING, according to Tami Haaland, “implies awareness of the present, preparation for what lies immediately ahead, and the practice that maintains a fighter’s rhythm.” Led by a practicing poet, these classes will focus on appreciation, not analysis. Each week students will be invited to read, listen to, present, write, and discuss poems. Packets of poetry will be available. Students will also be encouraged to share their own work as well as their favorite poets’. Writing prompts will be given each week for those students interested in them. As readers and writers, we’ll hone our skills to enjoy the verbal pleasures of poetry

About the Instructor: Mark Gibbons is a poet living with his wife and two cats in Missoula, where he also teaches poetry and works as a delivery driver. In 2014, Shadowboxing, his eighth collection of poems, was published by FootHills Publishing. In 2013, he received an Artist Innovation Award from the Montana Arts Council. Gibbons has been writing poetry for over forty years.

More information can be found at the link below:

http://www.umt.edu/sell/programs/molli/

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UM (MOLLI)

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