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Dr. John Edward Jenkins, 93 (aka: Dad, Pop, Grandpa, Papa John, Brother, Uncle Mac and “Chief”), passed away peacefully at his home on June 17, 2022 surrounded by family.

Songwriter and musician Barry Reynolds has lived an itinerant life. By age 15, in the mid-1960s, he’d left his Lancashire home and was gigging in Hamburg, then with the London bands Pacific Drift and Blodwyn Pig (with Jethro Tull’s Mick Abrahams). Once he started writing his own songs, he came to the attention of Marianne Faithfull, with whom he’s since had many years of fruitful collaborations. He’s had a similar relationship with Grace Jones, with whom he’s currently working. He shares some fascinating stories about his life and career with PKM’s Valerie Simadis.

During Uncle Mac’s lifetime, Black Americans went from being lynched and run out of town to seeing the end of Jim Crow and electing a Black president. This global pandemic has tested the planet, and certainly the McDonald family.

Clayton Industries steam technology saves two million pounds of tomatoes and helps launch a new brand Share Article A perennial problem of tomato loss during processing at a legacy South Carolina family farm leads to a creative and sustainable solution: the installation of a new steam generator that resulted in significant savings for the company and scaled up a new profit-making operation using the previously tossed tomatoes. Clayton’s SigmaFire SF50 Steam Generator 50BHP “The [new Clayton] Steam Generator could keep up with the job we needed, no problem. The operation costs are fantasti...

William McHenry Keyser After struggling with aggressive pneumonia and complications from lifelong diabetes, William McHenry Keyser died peacefully on December 15 with his wife, Virginia, by his side near their new home in Lake Wales, Fla. Mac was born on August 2, 1952, in New Bedford, Mass., near Marion, a treasured place where he spent time every summer with his family. The son of R. Brent Keyser and Helen Angier Keyser, Mac spent his youngest years in his father’s native Baltimore. He attended the Gilman School and the Harvey School and later gr...