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The Coeur d'Alenes, a twenty-five by ten mile portion of the Idaho Panhandle, is home to one of the most productive mining districts in world history. Historically the globe's richest silver district and also one of the nation's biggest lead and zinc producers, the Coeur d'Alenes' legacy also includes environmental pollution on an epic scale. For decades local waters were fouled with tailings from the mining district's more than one hundred mines and mills and the air surrounding Kellogg, Idaho was laced with lead and other toxic heavy metals issuing from the Bunker Hill Company's smelter. The same industrial processes that damaged the environment and harmed human health, however, also provided economic sustenance to thousands of local residents and a string of proud, working-class communities.Living with Leadendeavors to untangle the costs and benefits of a century of mining, milling, and smelting in a small western city and the region that surrounds it.

The book concludes with the writing of a complete history of vegetarianism by eighty-year old VSA President Henry S. Clubb for Vegetarian Magazine in March 1907. It notes that Clubb planned that the series would cover the movement from biblical times through to the modern vegetarian societies and organizations that he had been personally involved in establishing. The evolution of vegetarian cuisine reflected and even drove the societal shifts both within and toward vegetarian identity where food shifted from plain, harsh wheat bread and cold water to flesh-like meat substitutes. In the 1910s, J. H. Kellogg remained at the center of the movement to capitalize on vegetarian consumption through the renamed Battle Creek Sanitarium Food Company.

Christopher Keene's tenure as director of the New York City Metropolitan Opera witnessed the financial and critical decline of the company. He was fatally drawn to grandiose projects that were too expensive. The appointment of Paul Kellogg to replace Keene marks the beginning of a revival for the company.

Proceeds from the annual Celebration of Reading, which was created by the former first lady 10 years ago in Houston, help fund the [Barbara Bush] Foundation for Family Literacy and the Barbara Bush Texas Fund for Family Literacy. HEARD NEEDS GUIDES: The Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary in McKinney needs volunteer trail guides for the fall season, said naturalist and trail coordinator Kelly Rypkema. ON PARKLAND'S BOARD: Dalton Lott and Vicky Teherani have been named to the Parkland Health & Hospital System's board of managers.

Greenbaum and Rubinstein discuss the history of granola. In 1863, Dr. James Caleb Jackson, a health reformer who believed illness was rooted in the stomach, began experimenting with cold cereal to augment the mineral-spring treatments at his sanitarium in upstate New York. It was not long before Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a Michigan man with a sanitarium of his own, was also promoting a healthful cold cereal. Kellogg went on to invent the cereal flake, which led to the Kellogg's cereal empire. Today, granola is fully mainstream, with countless flavor iterations and scales of production.