{"id":30796,"date":"2025-03-16T10:54:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T14:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=30796"},"modified":"2025-03-16T10:54:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T14:54:37","slug":"ken-is-in-the-new-york-times-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=30796","title":{"rendered":"Ken is in the New York Times today"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nIn September 2018, Ken and I hiked across the eight-mile width of the island of Ulva to get to the island of Gometra. This photo of Ken was shot on the Mull side of Ulva. Click here for high-resolution version<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ken’s article in the New York Times today is “What a Small Island Off the Coast of Scotland Could Teach America<\/a>.” He writes:<\/p>\n

“As an American who lived for years in North Carolina, I saw firsthand the decline of rural communities. The boarded-up shops, political disengagement and ‘No Trespassing’ signs of rural America may be less picturesque, but in important ways they\u2019re not so different from the stone ruins and abandoned fields of Scotland\u2019s Highlands and islands. Could community ownership let people reclaim control over their land and their futures in rural America?<\/p>\n

“Some think it might. In the United States, federal and state governments can claim land using eminent domain, but we rarely see communities take control to provide affordable housing, let alone empower local residents to make it happen themselves. ‘It is impressive,’ said John Lovett, a law professor at Louisiana State University, who studies Scotland\u2019s land reform laws. Scotland is ‘trying to achieve something that we just don\u2019t even think about in the U.S. It\u2019s creating a way for the government to enable or facilitate the disassembly or the decentralization of landownership. We\u2019ve never tried that in the U.S.'”<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nKen picking blackberries on Ulva, September 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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