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Journalist George Pyle to Speak as Part of Houghton College Lecture Series
HOUGHTON, N.Y. – Author George Pyle is speaking at Houghton College on March 22, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. in Schaller Hall as part of the college’s lecture series. Pyle is delivering a lecture entitled, “The Salt of the Earth.” The event is open to the public.
George Pyle is an author and journalist concerned with business and agriculture. He currently serves as a staff writer for the Buffalo News, where he splits his time between the Editorial Board and the Financial Desk. He has been a journalist for more than 30 years at newspapers in Kansas, Utah and now, Western New York. In 1998, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing, and the recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists Eugene Pulliam Fellowship for Editorial Writers.
In 2005, after taking a year away from daily newspapering to serve as the founding co-director of the Prairie Writers Circle project of The Land Institute, he published a book entitled, Raising Less Corn, More Hell: The Case for the Independent Farm and Against Industrial Food. Through his book, Pyle exposes readers to the struggles between large food production and the small farmer. According to one review, Pyle’s book is “a revelatory, alarming, urgent and fiercely witty essay on the many wrongs in which our food is produced – what it all means and what can be done about it.” (http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?book=9781586481155)
George Pyle was born in Kansas City, Missouri, is a graduate of Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas, and now lives in North Buffalo with his wife and two sons.
