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Ableman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Michael Ableman, American writer *Paul Ableman (1927–2006), English playwright and writer Places * Ableman, Wisconsin, the former name of Rock Springs, Wisconsin See also *''Ableman v. Booth ''Ableman v. Booth'', 62 U.S. (21 How.) 506 (1859), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously held that state courts cannot issue rulings that contradict the decisions of federal courts,Hoiberg, Dale H. (2010) overt ...

Michael Ableman
Michael Ableman is an American-Canadian author, organic farmer, educator, and advocate for sustainable agriculture. Michael has been farming organically since the early 1970s and is considered one of the pioneers of the organic farming and urban agriculture movements. He is a frequent lecturer to audiences all over the world and the winner of numerous awards for his work. Ableman is the author of four trade published books: ''From the Good Earth: A celebration of growing food around the world; On Good Land: The autobiography of an urban farm; Fields Of Plenty; A farmer's journey in search of real food and the people who grow it'', and most recently ''Street Farm; Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier.'' Michael Ableman is the founder of the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens in Goleta, California where he farmed for 20 years; co-founder and director of Sole Food Street Farms and the charity Cultivate Canada in Vancouver, British Columbia; and founder and ...
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Paul Ableman
Paul Victor Ableman (13 June 1927 – 25 October 2006) was an English playwright and novelist. He was the writer of much erotic fiction and novelisations, and a freelance writer who turned his hand to non-fiction. Life and career Ableman was born in Leeds, Yorkshire to a Jewish family. He was the son of Jack Ableman, a trouser cutter at a tailoring factory, and Gertrude (née Gould), an actress and writer. Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, vol. 2, R. Reginald, 1979, pg 789 Following his parents' divorce, he lived with his mother and stepfather, Thurston B. Macauley, a journalist (sometime London correspondent for ''The New York Times'') in New York. After National Service in the Education Corps based in Gibraltar, he read English at King's College, London, but did not take a degree. His experimental novel, ''I Hear Voices'', was published in 1958 by the Olympia Press, and his plays include ''Green Julia'' (1966), a witty two-hander in which two young men discuss an absent mi ...
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Rock Springs, Wisconsin
Rock Springs is a village in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States, along the Baraboo River. The population was 362 at the 2010 census. History At the time of its founding, Rock Springs was known as Ableman, after Stephen Van Rensselaer Ableman, who settled there in 1851. The railroad has been a major influence on the village's growth. Surrounded by cliffs of Baraboo Quartzite, the village is two miles south of a notable rock formation located in Ableman Gorge, Van Hise Rock, which was used to explain the processes of structural geology by University of Wisconsin–Madison professor Charles R. Van Hise. Geography Rock Springs is located at (43.477698, −89.917030). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , of which, of it is land and is water. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 362 people, 137 households, and 99 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 150 housing units at ...
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