The season's first whiff of drawing-room comedy, Spring Meeting is not the usual neat English specimen, but very Irish and a trifle peaty: politely eccentric and richly brogued.
Because their peaty soils oxidize when exposed to air, delta islands converted to farmland have been sinking, leaving humans and wildlife increasingly vulnerable to flooding in the .
In the peaty soil that now covers the crannogs, Raftery and his assistant have uncovered 17 dugout canoes beautifully hollowed from the solid trunks of great oaks.
Gary Kubiak in InsideHouston.com (subscription) I thought Peaty (DeMarcus Faggins) and Fletch (Jamar Fletcher) played well last week,Kubiak said. "They didn't play poorly this week, but I thought they probably played a little better last week."