The venerable English pub has long been a place where everyone from the businessman to the housewife to the student, factory worker and vicar could meet as equals — a social commons that reflected the neighborhood and its idiosyncrasies.
It was the summer of 2007 and Kristin Hersh, frontwoman for the then-defunct band Throwing Muses, was at the end of a seven-month tour to promote her latest solo record.
“Common sense” is a term Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin repeatedly uses—with ever increasing enthusiasm—to describe the Hillside Farmers Cooperative he is creating with Latino farmers in southern Minnesota.
